Anouk Aimee Quotes

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

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.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

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.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

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.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

I've been dying to play.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

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.