Quotes About Moment

Just at that moment she glanced towards him and saw him smiling at her, his eyes lingering on her with warmth and an indefinable something else. Her heart caught in her chest

She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

Can one remember the words uttered in the first moment of meeting between a mother and son, husband and wife, or lover and lover? The simplest, most ordinary, even ridiculous words are said, if they were put down exactly upon paper. But each word is opportune and infinitely dear because it is uttered by the dearest voice in all the world.

Whatever is happening at this moment, that is your life. The future is not your life; it never arrives. What is actually here is always only this moment.

in art, we do not run to keep up with random moments, we select & create the moment occurring forever:

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.

is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

that people don't speak in theories, that the theories they employ change, flexibly, and of necessity, from moment to moment in conversation, that the notion of limiting conversation to a rigid rule of theoretical constancy is an absurd denial of what conversation is.

I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

This woman he met was the woman he met and however you try, you cannot unmeet.

Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.

Sono innamorata dello smettere. A suo modo è un'arte, se ci pensate. Smettere bene richiede un innato senso della bellezza; bisogna saper sentire il momento della svolta, proprio quando il desiderio fa la sua comparsa, quello è il momento di darci un taglio, giù deciso, l'istante in cui lo smettere è maturo come una pesca che si fa dolce sull'albero: crack, si spacca il picciolo, la pesca cade per terra, nera e argento di mosche.

I peed, then washed my hands with shampoo. The soap was in the soap dish and looked, at that moment, the size of a piece of soap.

Until that moment, I'd been living in my own little universe of good-luck hell.

It was as if a vital evolutionary advantage had been bestowed centuries ago on those members of the species who lived in a state of concern about what was to happen next. These ancestors might have failed to savour their experiences appropriately, but they had at least survived and shaped the character of their descendants, while their more focused siblings, at one with the moment and with the place where they stood, had met violent ends on the horns of unforeseen bison.

There is usually a Marxist moment in every relationship, the moment when it becomes clear that love is reciprocated.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.