Quotes About Moment

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielmo ("A star shines on the hour of our meeting").

we stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: "This is heaven.

For a moment I did not even see the king, I saw only the two of us, bound to be each other's grief

Alas for the dreamer : the moment of consciousness that accompanies the awakening is the acutest of sufferings. But it does not often happen to us, and they are not long dreams. We are only tired beasts.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God."5

What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? —

the hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat

And she reached her face up for another kiss.

Besides, Shane said I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.

Pics or it didn't happen. Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.

He stepped forward and took both her hands in his cool ones. For a moment, she thought he intended to kiss her, and for a panicked moment she wasn't sure if she ought to stop him, wanted to stop him…but then he just touched his forehead to hers and held it there.

She hardly felt the steps down the aisle, though she did feel the weight of all eyes on her as she walked. It was over in what seemed far too little time, and then her dad handed her off to Shane, and her heart almost stopped as his eyes met hers.

He sounded oddly calm. "It's risky." My arm is in the mouth of a sphinx that's only a moment from ripping it from the socket. Risky sounds quite safe , Wolfe thought, but he didn't say it. Too many words. "Tell me!" "Work your arm free," Jess said. "Run. Make for the Minotaur. If you can make them fight each other—" Risky wasn't the right word for it. Suicidal was far more on point.

It might be called denial by some, but in that moment I thought it was the very strength that made humanity so successful… the ability to transcend reality, to create reality around them, even for a moment

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.