Quotes About Moment

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.

The artist, especially the poet, has always known this to be wrong. He knows that time shortens and lengthens, without regard to the minute hand.

The overly health-conscious among us have tried to rain on the bacon parade by promoting low fat (and low flavor) options, such as turkey bacon. Turkey bacon. It's like saying "shoot" instead of "shit." It just doesn't quite carry the moment.

Turkey bacon. It's like saying "shoot" instead of "shit." It just doesn't quite carry the moment.

Inevitably linked with the moment of climax, there is a minor rupture suggestive of death; and conversely the idea of death may play a part in setting sensuality in motion.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

He stopped suddenly, put his hand to his throat for a few minutes with his features fixed in a kind of stupid, hopeless searching look. Then his face brightened a little in spite of the anguish which he had doubtlessly forgotten.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

was always on hand if needed. The strategic national stockpile of unhappiness. But now (for the first time) the moment

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.

Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.

'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

He'd jolt up in bed every morning, sit quietly for a moment, and you could feel those wheels spinning in his mind as he planned his day. Then he'd hit the floor almost on the run.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?