Delight Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— David Hume

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

— Angela Carter

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is…

— Anonymous

You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there…

— Eugene Delacroix

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

— Richard Steele

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…

— Robert South

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

— Marcus Aurelius

“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without…

— Thomas Merton

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

— Anonymous