Quotes About Moment

She had a stare that stretched to infinity. She was, in that moment, not my mother but something separate from me.

When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.

I was here for a moment, and then I was gone. I wish you all a long and happy life.

She held on to two sides of an hourglass and wondered how this could be possible. The time she'd had alone had been gravitationally circumscribed by when her attachments would pull her back. And they had pulled now – doublefisted.

the lightning would come and, a few moments later, the thunder. -Susie Salmon, The Lovely Bones

Standing beside the river, realizing that the water of earth is recycled forever, she deeply understood this: that there are two presents. One is of the moment. The other is of a longer moment - the moment that includes the history and knowledge one knows. So that, she mused, if the tears shed by the mother of Isis are now part of this river then I am somehow connected to her in this longer present that I am able to envision and that contains both of us.

That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also.

The end is coming yesterday it was here too.

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

What came is gone forever every time

Without even intending it, there is that little shiver of a moment in time preserved in the crystal cabinet of the mind. A little shiver of internal space. That's what I was looking for.

He looked a moment at his unsteadfast footing, then let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath his feet. A piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. How slowly it appeared to move! What a sluggish stream!

Yet he wasn't doing anything threatening at the moment. Instead, he was regarding her with curiosity. "Sarah Vida, I presume?" he inquired, voice civil. "Making sure introductions are out of the way before we fight?" she asked flippantly.

You have to pick your moment. He'd always said so. Told everyone who'd listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.

In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.

The memory of that unfortunate meeting hung between them for a moment like a fart,

And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does? Gasping, slack-jawed at the foot of the steps, Glokta felt a tingling of anticipation. Here it comes… The

And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does?

Time was he'd reckoned himself a quick thinker but the only thing moving fast right then was his cock.

Everything simple. No grinding worry, no chafing frustration, no wasted days slipping past. Only the beautiful, terrible now.

but if you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

You agreed. I just stood here.

For the briefest moment he almost kissed her, and he almost pushed her off the roof. Perhaps it was only because he could not decide which to do that he did neither one.

Moshing, for most of them, is a celebration of the moment, of the sad fact that it is only a moment.