Quotes About Moment

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

In every journey comes a moment...one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are...and who you want to be.

When life steers you in a new direction. Just hold on tight and enjoy the...Ride.

Les pays que nous désirons tiennent à chaque moment beaucoup plus de place dans notre vie véritable, que le pays où nous nous trouvons effectivement.

the memory of a certain image is only regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

It has occurred to me subsequently that this moment of her stroke cannot have come as a complete surprise to my grandmother, that she had possibly even foreseen it well before it occurred, lived with the thought that it would happen. She had not known, of course, when this fatal moment would come—of that she was unsure, as lovers are when a similar sense of uncertainty leads them to base unreasonable hopes and, in turn, unjustified suspicions on the fidelity of their mistresses.

Il y a des jours montueux et malaisés qu'on met un temps infini à gravir et des jours en pente qui se laissent descendre à fond de train en chantant.

love which, ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come)?

That purpose allows the chain of spent days to slip away, holding on only to the very end of it, often of a quite different metal from the links that have vanished in the night, and in the journey which we make through life, counts as real only in the place in which we at any given moment are.

I was trapped in the present, as heroes are, or drunkards; in brief eclipse, my past had ceased to project in front of me that shadow of itself which we call our future; seeing the purpose of my life not in any past dreams coming true but in the simple bliss of the passing moment, I could see no further than that moment.

to suppose that it formed part of a vast and enduring happiness that had appeared to me at this point alone; and, so that the following day might not give the lie to this pretense, not to try to demand a further favor following that which had been due only to the artifice of an exceptional moment.

First and foremost, the departure often occurs at a moment when our indifference—real or imagined—is at its greatest,

it was one of those visitors who do not approach us till all the others have gone and we can be alone together; that is when we notice them, when we can say, "I'm all yours," and give them our full attention.

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs.

Que toda inteligencia brille y se extinga en ti durante el espacio de un relámpago.

Why the hell did I have them if I didn't use them? It makes no sense to wait for the right moment because it never arrives. That moment doesn't exist.

If you get run over as you cross the street perhaps you won't even realize it.

Love last one single perfect moment; the rest is merely reminiscence of what has already happened, but the single moment can be enough to make sense of more than one life.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Pero el despertador, privado de cuerda durante tantos días, ya no señala el tiempo, señala la eternidad.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.