Quotes About Moment

The time to live, my love, was being so right now that I leaned my mouth on living matter.

Aquello que será después es ahora. Ahora es el dominio de ahora. Y mientras dura la improvisación yo nazco.

Mesmo sofrer era bom porque enquanto o mais baixo sofrimento se desenrolava também se existia — como um rio a parte. E também se podia esperar o instante que vinha... que vinha... e de súbito se precipitava em presente e de repente se dissolvia... e outro que vinha... que vinha...

For the present has no hope, and the present has no future: the future will be exactly once again present.

Quero acrescentar, à guisa de informações sobre a jovem e sobre mim, que vivemos exclusivamente no presente pois sempre e eternamente é o dia de hoje e o dia de amanhã será um hoje, a eternidade é o estado das coisas neste momento.

Houve um momento grande, parado, sem nada dentro. Dilatou os olhos, esperou. Nada veio. Branco. Mas de repente num estremecimento deram corda no dia e tudo recomeçou a funcionar, a máquina trotando, o cigarro do pai fumegando, o silêncio, as folhinhas, os frangos pelados, a claridade, as coisas revivendo cheias de pressa como uma chaleira a ferver.

só me comprometo com vida que nasça com o tempo e com ele cresça: só no tempo há espaço para mim.

É preciso que se saiba. É preciso que se saiba. Que a vida é curta. Que a vida é curta.

I want to die with life. I swear that I shall only die profiting from the last instant. There is a profound prayer within me that will be born I don't know when. I would so like to die of health. Like someone exploding. Éclater is better: j'éclate

And all this is in this very instant, is in the now. But at the same time the present instant is completely removed because of the immense magnitude of God.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

Quizá la felicidad sea eso, un instante donde estar, un momento cualquiera en el que las palabras sobran porque se necesitarían demasiadas para poder contarlo. Atreverse a tomarlo en su condensación, sin permitir que ellas, en su afán de narrarlo, le hagan perder su intensidad.

Hey you — All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothing to solve even as each moment is an answer.

You have a destination that doesn't include acting like this moment isn't inhabitable, hasn't happened before, and the before isn't part of the now as the night darkens and the time shortens between where we are now and where we are going.

Ricordando la disfatta bulgara, evento decisivo per l'esito della 1° guerra mondiale e dunque per la fine di una civiltà, il conte Károlyi scrive che, mentre lo aveva vissuto, non aveva percepito la sua importanza, perché "in quel momento, non era ancora diventato ." P.42

Suleika knows that she is only a passing moment, the crest of a wave or the hem of a cloud, but she is soberly content to be, do an instant, the embodiment of that flow.

Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

I merely leap and pause." (Either you got the pause or you don't got the pause.)

The clavadista checks the tower On the cliffs from which he dives Turning two thirds of the way down To mark the point Where all the somersaults are over And he must go in feet first or else break

It was great fun,But it was just one of those things.

I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.