Quotes About Moment

Everybody gets caught up in everything, but at the end of the day we're all just here for a short time, so we may as well enjoy it.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of the moment.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.

To think, to think, even with a split second left—to think was the only hope.

To mark the paper was the decisive act.

And it was exactly at this moment that the significant thing happened -if, indeed, it did happen.

He was not certain that he would use the razor blade even if he got the chance. It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.

La suerte puede sonreirnos si aprovechamos las ocasiones que se presentan

La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n'est que le prestige d'un moment; l'œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme. (The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes, she continued, is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.) [Le beau Laurence]

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The thousand dresses, laid out so reverently that afternoon, flecks of dust brushed off carefully in doorways, hems gathered up for the carriage trip: where are they now? Is a single one museum-displayed? Are some few yet saved in attics? Most are dust. As are the women who wore them so proudly in that transient moment of radiance.

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

As that gentleman passed through, I felt a kinship.

She came to him now, stumbling a bit on a swell in the floor of this stranger's house.

Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping. Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit.

You are a wave that has crashed upon the shore

From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.

The miraculous moment is the moment when anticipation dissolves into NOTHING. It is the moment when we are relieved of anticipation, man's customary misery, of the anticipation that enslaves, that subordinates the present moment to some anticipated result. Precisely in the miracle, we are thrust from our anticipation of the future into the presence of the moment, of the moment illuminated by a miraculous light, the light of the sovereignty of life delivered from its servitude