Quotes About Moment

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us, but I didn't care about such things anymore. We were alive, she and I. And all we had to think about was continuing to live.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today is all we have right now.

Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more accurately, than I ever do. Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old. The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

I'm glad to know that time still keeps on flowing at four in the morning.

Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tienen que fluir, y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlo lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así.

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

Beginnings are always like this. One minute everything exists, the next minute everything is lost.

The past and the present, might we say, go like this . The future is a maybe . Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe . The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.

Now that you've said hello, I'm afraid we move right into farewells. Hello, goodbye. Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell, as they say

I forgot my eraser," I told her, "so if you have an extra, could you let me borrow it?" She took her eraser, broke it in two, and gave me half. And smiled broadly. Like the saying goes, in that instant I fell in love.

Our hands were clasped together for ten seconds at most, but to me it felt more like thirty minutes. When she let go of my hand, I was suddenly lost.

Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.

I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.