Quotes About Moment

In this moment, in whatever form it comes, lies the only opportunity I will ever have to act, to think, to love. Only this moment, out of every moment I have ever lived, or will ever live, allows me to matter now.

Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

El paisaje es un lienzo extendido en la distancia sobre el que la mirada piensa, donde la memoria ancestral se narra y la eternidad del momento se plasma en la nada superficial y profunda que está sucediendo en los tres tiempos del ser.

All happiness lasts but a moment, and the time that follows is only good for remembering what we have lost. —Homero Aridjis, Persephone (Vintage, 1986)

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever Has come and gone before I knew.

The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all until one day you wake up and think, 'How did I get here?' But other times, life changes in an instant with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck with glorious or tragic consequences.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going' Tennessee Williams

For a moment Tess felt her strange, inappropriate happiness teeter. It was as though she were balanced on a narrow crevice surrounded by chasms of grief. One wrong thought and down she'd tumble.

Imagineaza-ti ce-ar fi fost daca nu ne-am fi intalnit. Asa a fost soarta, a spus Nick. Daca nu ne intalneam atunci, ne intalneam a doua zi.

They smiled at each other. Jane looked away. She picked up her mug of tea and took a sip even though it was all gone. The doorbell rang. "That will be Celeste," said Madeline. Great, thought Jane, continuing to pretend-sip her empty mug of tea. Now I'll be in the presence of both great love and great beauty.

It was extraordinary how tumultuous historical moments could be replayed right here in this ordinary little moment as she drove down the Pacific Highway

He lived in the moment, as you were meant to do. He practised mindfulness. No yesterday. No tomorrow. Just now.

It was irresistible, like they were being tickled themselves. Their eyes met across the table, and at that instant, Rachel's laughter turned into a sob.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

I'm falling even more in love with you letting go of all i've held onto standing here untill you make me move just hanging by a moment here with you I'm living for the only thing i know I'm running and not quite sure where to go and I don't know what i'm diving into just hanging by a moment here with you

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

She put her head back, then her eyes closed. We stuck in the moment, like the time froze. Then my girl called, back to reality. But I keep in a picture in my heart gallery.

Time to do the thing, thats word to your wrist watch.

For a moment all my bees have turned to honey.