Quotes About Moment

Given the fleeting nature of the moment and the least event, the most important thing is to anticipate being able to see it again in order to believe it, to anticipate the absence that already looms, the shadow cast by an elusive present. This is the opposite of what is sometimes called the work of grieving, which tends to allay the forgetting. It is not a question of admitting that the other is no longer there but of assuring oneself of having been there, in person.

it is impossible for our life to be put on hold, for whatever is happening in the moment is our life.

Il y a des premiers baisers qui font basculer votre vie.

every moment is forever

Le souvenir de cette nuit me hante encore, comme celui d'un moment d'intimité où nous chassions la mort; je savais déjà qu'aucune autre compagne de m'offrirait semblable étreinte, et cette pensée me fit peur.

Si la felicidad llama a tu puerta, no la dejes escapar.

Il suffit de cesser de croire une seule seconde pour que le rêve se brise en mille morceaux

they spent the night together, so I suppose it was

Every day counts.

Han kysste henne, snabbt och diskret med tanke på alla studenter som strömmade.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

But the assault on Lindisfarne was a seismic moment that sent shockwaves right across Europe.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.

Life is a hard thing that presses us too tightly, forever hurting our souls. Upon feeling those restraints loosen for a moment, one can experience clear-sighted pleasures.

Alle unsere endgültigen Entschlüsse werden in einem sehr vergänglichen Gemütszustand gefaßt.

His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment, five o'clock in the afternoon, then to another, then to another again. But Swann was incapable of inventing his sufferings. They were only the memory, the perpetuation of a suffering that had come to him from without.

Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell. Now that I feel nothing, it has stopped, has perhaps gone down again into its darkness, from which who can say whether it will ever rise?

Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second, then decide what to do with your time.

In the letters between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya there is the beautiful recognition: "When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, its sound is often no louder than the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it.