#anticipation

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#love #separation #weariness #love

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chapter #true-love #love

And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#beach #love #touching #love

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. ↗

— Dario Argento

#definition #emotion #fearful #horror #pure

I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#beauty #inspiration #beauty

When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#impressions #patterns #equality