Quotes About Momentary

I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

fun is temporary, happiness is ongoing. Or to put it another way, fun is during, happiness is during and after.

For a moment he became smoke. How intimate, now, the cloudy sky.

It's just a temporary thing.

Like all happiness, it did not last long.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.

Transient pleasures, drastic measures.

It's a blip, not a catastrophe.

won't last, it's

This always shocked me like a momentary glare of insanity.

Every experience that arises passes away.

if you set up a goal which will lead to an outcome that isn't final at all. We can return to our friend Fred for one example. Let's suppose he enters the bank, wanting his loan, but we take note of the fact that there are five banks in town, and this is just the first one. Now after he is turned down, the disaster isn't final at all; it's just a momentary setback, and he has four more banks to try.

I've tasted the deep satisfaction of God and I know all other things are but cheap imitations. And I don't want to be enamored by the lesser things wrought with momentary pleasure.

You got pretty popular for a while there.' 'For about forty-eight hours,' I said. 'Just long enough to figure out that I don't want to be popular.

The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this non-existent thing.

Thirty today, I saw The trees flare briefly like The candles upon a cake As the sun went down the sky, A momentary flash, Yet there was time to wish Before the light could die, If I had known what to wish, As once I must have known, Bending above the clean, Candlelit tablecloth To blow them out with a breath.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had town from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

Life is like a bowl of ice-cream, it melts very quickly so enjoy it while it lasts.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.