Quotes About Momentary

The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;

I would fall asleep again, and thereafter would reawaken for short snatches only, just long enough to hear the regular creaking of the wainscot, or to open my eyes to stare at the shifting kaleidoscope of the darkness, to savour, in a momentary glimmer of consciousness, the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, that whole of which I formed no more than a small part and whose insensibility I should very soon return to share.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Journalists, bless our black little hearts, are petty and vindictive and love to flog our hallowed journalism ethics whenever there's some momentary advantage and/or amusement value in doing so.

Defeat is a momentary thing. A defeat doesn't last. We were defeated and now we attack. Defeat means nothing. Can't you understand that? Do you know what they are whispering behind doors?

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Everything in life is going to fade away one day. So enjoy everything you have before its gone.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Life is a raindrop

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

very small and it will disappear. This

Se es o no se es, no importa el día.

Estoy seguro de que la cumbre es un breve segundo, un destello instantáneo, y no hay derecho a prórrogas".

Maybe at the beginning. It didn't last long.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

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

why is it that happiness can disappear in an instant but sadness stays around forever?

Excusing our momentary lapses as an outlier event triggers a self-indulgent inconsistency—which is fatal for change.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go

We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started.' 'Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.

The fundamental difference between pleasure and satisfaction is that pleasure cannot be sustained beyond the activity producing it.

Personal existence is intermittent

Peat believes that synchronicities are therefore "flaws" in the fabric of reality, momentary fissures that allow us a brief glimpse of the immense and unitary order underlying all of nature.