Quotes About Moments

Time is out there. Everything that ever happened is still happening. For instance, if I took your hand in mine." Which he did as he was speaking. "It would be happening for hundreds of years.

Fall in love whenever you can.

Às vezes, você não sabe como tem sorte na vida até que o tempo tenha passado. Sally tinha vontade de se sentar com as filhas e dizer: Não percam um só instante, mas aquilo não serviria de nada. A pessoa tinha que viver a vida antes de ver sentido nisso.

Time goes faster than you think.

The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel.

He could have left out the fact that one had but a few hours to live, while the other had another life entirely still before him. This one. With her arms around her

Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are all the other places

Algo había ocurrido allí. En la vida tienes unos cuantos sitios, o quizá uno solo, donde ocurrió algo, y después están todos los demás sitios.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel … I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand. The novel has to have a coherence which I don't see anymore in the lives around me.

this is not a story, only life.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened. And then there are the other places, which are just other places.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

What if more of life could be like that? Like the last slow dance, where, to echo T.S. Eliot, a lifetime burns in every moment.

It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties...I understood their enduring clarity....In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

What adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

By then I'd knocked around enough to know that, in the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

El tiempo se mueve despacio, pero pasa deprisa.

How brief and hidden were the moments of destiny.

But, in this life, we have too few chances of happiness to throw any away.

time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The odds of me living until I'm a hundred are slim to none, but I'll try, and I'll enjoy every precious moment.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.