Quotes About Moment

A thought that is almost beautiful – a thought that you speak not, but that you cherish within you at this moment, will irradiate you as though you were a transparent vase.

We are face to face with reality now; let us look at it well and pronounce our sentence; for this is the moment when we hold the proofs in our hands, when the elements of crime are hot before us and shout out the truth that soon will fade from our memory.

Each one can be, according to the moment, I or You or They....Insofar as we live in language, we are not only I; we haunt all grammatical persons, as we are at their intersection, at their crossroads, at their tuft.

We cannot say at what moment the decision is taken: it is always to be taken or already taken.

The moment that one understands time as chiasm then past and present are Ineinaander, each enveloping-enveloped--and that itself is the flesh.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

aber vor allem: standhalten, dem Licht, der Freude (wie unser Kind als es sang) im Wissen, dass ich erlösche im Licht über Ginster, Asphalt und Meer, standhalten der Zeit, beziehungsweise Ewigkeit im Augenblick. Ewig sein: gewesen sein.

Das schönste an einem Kuß ist jawohl, daß er nicht siebzig Jahre dauert. Es stelle sich jeder mal vor, er würde noch heute im Rachen dessen wühlen, den er als erstes küßte!

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

They stood, caught in the eternity of a moment.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Ova zena je cudljiva, vjeciti april, vesela je pa tmurna, pricljiva pa malorjeka, svakog jutra ustaje i na lijevu i na desnu nogu pa je ne odredjuje dan vec trenutak, slucajno je ovdje, kivna kad se sjeti da je mogla biti na drugom mjestu, razdragana kad pomisli da ce biti. Obicna je samo kad zaboravi.

In the poem, there is always that present moment which is terribly important through which memory works.

I have often looked back at that moment and imagined history veering fractionally in one direction or another, imagined if I'd been a different person, or if he had, whether what followed would have been a different story altogether and the history of the world might have changed ever so slightly around us.

The hours passed as they did the rest of the year, until whatever it was we were waiting for commenced.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

The present could never be held, it did not allow it.

Yeah, you were lucky you got to come here when you did. But what was most exciting about it when you were here was the fact that you were young. That was the best part.

The bad moment had fled. All you ever had to do to make a bad moment flee was acquiesce. This was true everywhere in life, even though so much of Loci's focus was supposedly on not acquiescing.

She had rarely called him honey, and he thought: This is weird. Honey was for a moment of extremeness. She had reached out from their usual vocabulary and into that of some other generation; the words that they usually used wouldn't do. Honey was weird, but it was a bridge across the terrifying open space between where they had been and where they now were. A honeyed bridge that would take them forward as best it could.

The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

Give me your hand," she says, offering hers. "Hurry now.