Quotes About Momentary

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty.

Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

De Quincey says that man's brain is a palimpsest. Every new text covers the previous one, and is in turn covered by the text that follows—but all-powerful Memory is able to exhume any impression, no matter how momentary it might have been, if given sufficient stimulus.

Goethe says that "der Menschheit bestes Tell" ("the best part of man") is this experience, the Schaudern ("shudder")20—it's a kind of noumenal ripple, a realization of how momentary you are in this vast explosion that is the universe, and that's what you get through Dionysus.

Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk.

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something is to become one with God."—Gandhi

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

Everything gains only momentary explanation.

they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have liftoff power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

Beauty is momentary in the mind—The fitful tracing of a portal;But in the flesh it is immortal.The body dies; the body's beauty lives.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Well, ultimately nothing lasts. Everything is temporal, but some things last longer than others.

Sadness and Happiness is a comparison between your fleeting momentary choices between past and future, modern and ancient."

Life was merely a momentary act of resistance, while death was the ultimate champion. Ah,

For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says You are here.

in most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.

During all this, Mary had been extracting eyes from potatoes with such energy that they had been flying around the kitchen like hailstones. At this moment, one hit me in the eye and caused a momentary pause in the conversation.

It was created to endure for a specific moment in time. Like a sandcastle, or an ice sculpture. Here, and then gone. In a way, that's the beauty of it. Who'd marvel at a sandcastle, if sandcastles lasted forever?

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....