John Green Quotes

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

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

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

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

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.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

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.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.