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Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Iris Johansen

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Anticipation Intense Makes More Pleasure

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Iris Johansen
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Born: April 7, 1938

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

Robert Wright

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

David Hume

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Edith Hamilton

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

Slipknot's music is very technical and intense, and it's not easy to play, but that's what makes it special. What's so gratifying about playing a show that is that intense is when you get off the stage, and you know you really delivered at the top of your ability and performance; that is what makes it all worthwhile.

Joey Jordison

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Angela Carter

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

Lance Armstrong

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.

Noah Hawley

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Patricia Highsmith

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Arianna Huffington

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

Joe Rogan

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