T. S. Eliot Quotes

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

I hope it won't take long.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

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

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

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.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

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

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

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.

I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

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

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

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

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

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.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime

I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.