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Quotes About Moment

It's exactly my sense of existing - a fragment, a wisp of color.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The elms and the poplars were turning their ruffled backs to a sudden onslaught of wind, and a black thunderhead loomed above Ramsdale's white church tower when I looked around me for the last time.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One night between sunset and river On the old bridge we stood, you and I. Will you ever forget it, I queried, - That particular swift that went by? And you answered, so earnestly: Never! And what sobs made us suddenly shiver, What a cry life emitted in flight! Till we die, till tomorrow, for ever, You and I on the old bridge one night.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A real hansom-cab took him from the station to Trinity College: the vehicle, it seemed, had been waiting there especially for him, desperately holding out against extinction till that moment, and then gladly dying out to join side whiskers and the Large Copper.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ez a "most" az egyetlen realitás, amit ismerünk; a már-nem színes semmijét követi, és a jövÅ' abszolút semmijét elÅ'zi meg. Így egészen szó szerinti értelemben mondhatjuk, hogy a tudatos emberi élet mindig csak egy pillanatig tart, mert a saját tudatáramunkra irányuló szándékos figyelem egyetlen pillanatában sem tudhatjuk, hogy követi-e újabb pillanat.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
De ha gyorsan végezzük a m?veletet, ha a kitörölhetetlen b?nöket két gyors szellemesség között említjük, akkor van rá esély, hogy magának az életnek érzéstelenítÅ'je csillapíthatja a felejthetetlen kínt, ajtajának egy gyors lendítésével.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Before letting go he looked down. Some kind of hasty preparations were under way there: the window reflections gathered together and leveled themselves out, the whole chasm was seen to divide into dark and pale squares, and at the instant when Luzhin unclenched his hand, at the instant when icy air gushed into his month, he saw exactly what kind of eternity was obligingly and inexorably spread out before him.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
This now-ness is the only reality we know; it follows the colored nothingness of the no-longer and precedes the absolute nothingness of the future. Thus, in a quite literal sense, we may say that conscious human life lasts always only one moment, for at any moment of deliberate attention to our own flow of consciousness we cannot know if that moment will be followed by another.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The fatal gesture passed like the tail of a falling star across the blackness of the contemplated crime.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A bowling ball rolled through his head, diagonally from nape to temple; it paused and started back
~ Vladimir Nabokov
picnic, lightning)
~ Vladimir Nabokov
there is the rare kind of time in which I live - the pause, the hiatus, when the heart is like a feather....
~ Vladimir Nabokov
o bien ocurría algo en que las gentes que caminan por la ciudad nunca se fijan: una estrella, más rápida que el pensamiento y más silenciosa que una lágrima, caía del firmamento
~ Vladimir Nabokov
expecting every moment some awful change, some diabolical sneer to disfigure the dear face bending over you
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Well, you haven't kissed me yet, have you
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Alertness is a measure of how many nows you are alert to in a given period. The result is simple: you become more aware of what is going on as you learn to keep your attention in the now.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in, is at the heart of this book and at the heart of the art of doing anything well.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. "No more bullshit," he said against her lips. "I want you. I think I've always wanted you.
~ Larissa Ione
et l'espace d'une seconde il envisagea même de mettre ses tongs en cuir. Personne ne pouvait avoir l'air dangereux en tongs. Larissa, Ione Tome 6 : Guerre.
~ Larissa Ione
Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.
~ Larry Brooks
I paused, allowing the
~ Larry Brooks
Then He was gone. I opened my eyes. My savior was looking at me. I think he was wanting another beer.
~ Larry Brown