Quotes About Moment

To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

I dangled for a moment like the bob on the end of a pendulum telling borrowed time.

For a moment it seemed that this was the music of a song, once heard under the southern stars in a cafe-chantant, with half-absurd, half-blind, recklessly merry words (146)

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

Lo que sólo ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca. Si el hombre sólo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto

Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together.

It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time—pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.

She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.

But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment

Sabina was now by herself. She went back to the mirror, still in her underwear. She put the bowler hat back on her head and had a long look at herself. She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.

Love is the glorification of the present

Einmal ist keinmal

el acto del amor físico es un instante de absoluta intimidad en el que el mundo que nos rodea se convierte en un desierto interminable en medio del cual se aprietan uno contra otro dos cuerpos solitarios

Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.

Uno decide algo, ni siquiera sabe muy bien cómo, y esa decisión se mantiene luego por su propia inercia.

Lo que sólo ocurre una vez, es como si no ocurriera nunca

Todo lo que ocurra en ese momento a su alrededor estará iluminado por aquella música y se hará hermoso.

Tereza burst out laughing Thomas laughed with her

Por uma certa parte de nós mesmos, vivemos todos além do tempo. Talvez só tomemos consciência da nossa idade em certos momentos excepcionais, sendo, na maior parte do tempo, uns sem-idade

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.

Y como en aquel momento no tenía nada con que obsequiar al mundo, obsequiaba a Klara. Al menos con promesas

Lo que solo ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca. Si el hombre solo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto