Anticipation Quote by Julian Barnes

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

— Tobsha Learner

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

— Anonymous

Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will…

— Francesco Guicciardini

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

— Epictetus

“Forget pleasure and Ambition”

— Allen Ginsberg

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything.…

— Emil Cioran

“Memory supplies the place of a mistress”

— Peter Abelard

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type…

— Vivian Mercer

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

— Sophocles

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

— Arthur Miller