Samuel Johnson Anticipation Quotations

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

Hope is necessary in every condition.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.