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.


Johnson. History of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, ed. with intr. and notes by G.B. Hill (ed. 1887)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...