Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
Source: Love for Love, 1695.
-- William Congreve, (Jan 24 1670-1729), English dramatist; He was a neoclassical dramatist who shaped the English comedy of manners through his brilliant comic dialogue in The Way of the World, 1770.