Greta Garbo Quotes

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

expectation isn't the same as desire

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

I want to have it all.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

I am very excited about the future.

From where I sit now, I like the looks of tomorrow.

I love watching people's dreams come true.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

I'm really excited about the future.

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.