Quotes About Moment

I'm fine, said Pilar, for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.

The bell that measures time is ringing

They blink and reality shivers.

There will never be another caterpillar just like this one. there will never be another such moment of time, another such conjunction. These things sneak up on him for no reason, flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

A space-time, between here and now and there and then, puncuated by dinner

Then they fell from a joyous life in the moment into the anxious contemplation of the vanished past and the distant future.

An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now.

He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hours, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

In the moment just before giving, I am loved.

But once you've climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don't intend to go down it again.

I finished my tea. This was the moment, I felt, when I should thank him graciously for his kindness and leave. Otherwise we would have to exchange the stories of our lives and I was too depressed about mine to want to do that.

He's got his cigarette going . He offers her one; this time she takes it. Brief match-flare inside their cupped hands. Red finger-ends.

We have learned to see the world in gasps. To

I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

It was late that night before Anne and I met again. She seemed the same as always. Thus do changes of great moment disguise themselves as no change at all.

being stopped and

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

A minor point at such a moment.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.