Quotes About Moment

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

He wonders how so much water can resist the pull of so much gravity for the time it takes such pregnant clouds to form, he wonders about the moment the rain begins, the turn from forming to falling, that slight silent pause in the physics of the sky as the critical mass is reached, the hesitation before the first swollen drop hurtles fatly and effortlessly to the ground.

A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope.

Nostalgia is a powerful force, and in the maelstrom of the moment many of us seek comfort in imagining that once there was a Camelot—without quite remembering that the Arthurian legend itself was about a court riven by ambition and infidelity. One point of this book is to remind us that imperfection is the rule, not the exception.

Then between Sixth Street and Seventh Street, my mood was vastly improved when I passed a good-looking dog, a dark brown Lab. We locked eyes for a moment—two lovers from a former life reunited—and I felt quite happy.

According to Scripture, earthly life was but a moment, but the moment seemed spacious when he was with her.

And so began the remainder of her life.

If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it.

I think there's eternity in every second we're alive.

In the instant before it was over and pure nothing, he heard all the human voices in the world.

They rode an elevator in silence. Too-precipitous intimacy had left in its wake a kind of dirty awkwardness.

She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek...Don't do that, I said. You just met me. This is New York.

We were in a middle space then, in a cone of white, father and son moving forward at a certain speed. Side by side, not truly quiet but quiescent, two gnarls of human scribble, human cipher, human dream.

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.

The moment before he started was my favorite moment.

Hayat?m?n en güzel günlerinden biri, hayat?m? yaÅŸad???m ve hayat?m hakk?nda hiç düÅŸünmediÄŸim bir gündü.

It takes life to live life

How do children do that? Jacob wondered. Not only enter rooms silently, but at the worst possible moment.

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.