Quotes About Moment

The preacher, not the commentator, is the one sent by these people at this moment to this text, and, therefore, only the preacher truly knows the full range of questions to ask.

It was at that moment that I'd first begun to experience one of life's deepest lessons: you are the most alive when you feel the most vulnerable, not when the arrow is still in the quiver but when it has been released by the string and is flying toward you.

If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this moment, when this pain is taking over my mind and my self. Pretty soon none of this will make any difference.

Revision and prediction seem like wastes of time. As much as I'd like to have a handle on the past and future, the moment I live in is the one I have. Here is how the moment instructs me: clouds float in front of the moon's face, lights flicker in the carved heads of pumpkins, leaves rise in the wind at random, saints go nameless, love comforts, souls sing beyond the reach of bodies.

So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which would never release her.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

When you're dead, the way death got you is just one thing that happened among thousands. You don't care more about that day than any of the others, just because it was the last day. You'll see.

Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate

On the stage it is always now.

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

Well, I heard a lot of the hours struck

A man looks pretty small at a wedding

Emily: But just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're all happy. Let's really look at one another... I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

every day is an anniversary; every minute, a commemoration so there is no reason to ever be sober

If you have the opportunity to make a moment meaningful, why not take it?

Before Jenna could think, Eric flipped her on her back, hooked his arms behind her

This moment, the three of them together, it was her default fantasy—always in the back of her mind. But she'd forbidden herself to think it was attainable. After all, was it ever possible to really have it all?