Jacqueline Carey Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

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.

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.

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.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

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

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

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

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

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

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.