Quotes About Moment

I want to live till I die. No more, no less.

Instead of confronting what we have done to bring us to such a moment, we forget, or as Baldwin put it, retreat into a "weird nostalgia," a longing for a time that never was. What was needed, he believed, was an unflinching confrontation with the ruins. That included confronting the ongoing terror and brutality of white supremacy.

On one level, it is the interregnum surrounded by the ghosts of the dying moment, and on another, the moment that is desperately trying to be born with a lie wrapped around its neck.

It makes for a galvanizing moment, with Baldwin moved to leave Paris by the cruelty visited on a child.

King conveyed the gravity of the moment in 1968 and the necessity for the Poor People's Campaign, he conjured, without a hint of nostalgia, a history of the heroism of everyday people acting against all odds, a history no less full of disappointment and trauma. He

perfection. The lie is the story that warps reality in this country, which means that resisting it involves telling in each moment a truer story, one that casts the lie into relief, showing it for what it is. And

All you need is a second in order to succeed or fail

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Tell her the joyous time will not be stayedUnlesse she do him by the forelock take.

Why do you follow me?- Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough for your embrace. Yet if over hill and hollow Still it is your will to follow, I am off; - to heel, Apollo!

Strange how few, After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment. Few indeed! When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more." There, there it dangles,—where's the little truth That can for long keep footing under that When its slack syllables tighten to a thought? Here, let me write it down! I wish to see Just how a thing like that will look on paper! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Lie down beside these waters That bubble from the spring; Hear in the desert silence The desert sparrow sing; Draw from the shapeless moment Such pattern as you can; And cleave henceforth to Beauty; Expect no more from man. Man, with his ready answer, His sad and hearty word, For every cause in limbo, For every debt deferred, For every pledge forgotten, His eloquent and grim Deep empty gaze upon you,— Expect no more from him.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

a veces se nos va la vida en una discusión, en un deseo, y después pasa algo que lo cambia todo, lo trastoca todo, y el viejo deseo queda reducido a nada.

No solo nos marca la familia en la que nacemos, sino también el momento que vive esa familia cuando nacemos.

All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.

A suspension of time, a continuous present.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

In a moment there often dwells the sense of eternity; for when profoundly happy, we know that it is impossible to die. Whenever the soul feels itself, it feels everlasting life.