Quotes About Moments

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what: I am reminded of the moments before the coming of a cyclone, when you have barricaded yourself into your dwelling and have nothing else to do but wait. The moments will not pass, the air hangs still and heavy; it is as though time itself has been slowed by the friction of fear.

Toate sentimentele mi se par inutile, f?cînd ca lucrurile s? se termine r?u. ViaÈ›a poate fi mult mai simpl? dac? abolim emomÈ›iile. Dar nu trebuie s? te educ, Shmuel. Poate te mulÈ›umeÈ™ti cu faptul c?, în general, te tolerez într-o m?sur? mai mare sau mai mic?, iar din cînd în cînd apar È™i momente ceva mai bune decît acesta.

Al fin y al cabo, hay momentos en la vida de un individuo y de un pueblo en los que el silencio es una utilización abominable del lenguaje. No

If one is generously contracted 80 years, that amounts to 29,220 days on Earth. Playing that out, how many more times then, really, do I get to look at a tree? 12,395? There has to be an exact number. Let's just say it is 12,395. Absolutely, that is a lot, but it is not infinite, and anything less than infinite seems too measly a number and is not satisfactory. Also, I would like to stare at my kids a few million more times. I could stare at them a few million more times easy.

I have a sense of my life as a percentage of what has been used and what is likely left. And I get impatient now when I waste time trying to find lost things or doing mundane chores, when I dwell on the unpleasant, when I give my mind to it. So I will kill those moments, banish them, and try to find the moments that can be relived. That's the role of the imagination. It's like reassembling what has happened, yet it's still inaccurate.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

Henry, there are moments when I am almost frightened at the way you have invaded me. Don't talk about others, for instance; it is all external—contrast, not penetration.

You are like me, wishing for such perfect moments, and frightened for fear of spoiling them.

I was not travelling away from human life, I was seeking my own fulfillment. Searching for heightened moments uninterrupted by life's daily exigencies.

we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indignantly, "That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Ne désire jamais, Nathanaël, regoûter les eaux du passé...Ne cherche pas, dans l'avenir, à retrouver jamais le passé. Saisis de chaque instant la nouveauté irressemblable et ne prépare pas tes joies, ou sache qu'en son lieu préparé te surprendra une joie autre.

Seize from every moment it's unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face. The Royal Way (1935)

In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.

Arriva un momento – pinsò – nel quale t'adduni, t'accorgi che la tua vita è cangiata. Ma quando è successo? – ti domandi. E non trovi risposta, fatti impercettibili si sono accumulati fino a determinare la svolta. O macari fatti ben visibili, di cui però non hai calcolato la portata, le conseguenze. Spii e rispii, ma la risposta a quel «quando» non la sai trovare. Come se avesse importanza, poi!

We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.

Grief will go--it always does-- but not before it forces us to do these absurd things, and hurt ourselves, and bring on suffering, because grief, that parasite, above all else does not want to die, and only in these terrible moments it creates can it feel itself thrashing back to life.

Who can ever say, this is the last? Only one is true, but all of them feel true, and the tears we shed are equal every time.

but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked.

The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores.