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Quotes About Moments

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what really everything was all about. It was 20 minutes, 100 years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and it was this: it was happening. Right then as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards.
~ Sarah Dessen
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life.
~ Sarah Dessen
For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by the time put in, but by the weight of those moments.
~ Sarah Dessen
A wedding is a series of special moments, strung together like beads on a chain. Sure, by themselves, they are lovely, but put them all together and you get art.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments.
~ Sarah Dessen
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath.
~ Sarah Dessen
El hogar no era una casa concreta, ni una ciudad en el mapa, sino el lugar donde están las personas a las que quieres, siempre que están juntos. No es un espacio, sino la suma de los momentos que se van construyendo, uno sobre otro, como ladrillos, un refugio sólido que llevas contigo toda tu vida, vayas donde vayas.
~ Sarah Dessen
Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.
~ Sarah Dessen
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments—an inability to accept life as ongoing.
~ Sarah Manguso
Life is complicated sometimes to be sure, but there are other times...when life is just as sweet, and good, and simple as it seems.
~ Sarah Weeks
Cada instante aparece para traer los siguientes. Me aferro a cada instante con toda el alma; sé que es único, irremplazable, y sin embargo no movería un dedo para impedir su aniquilación.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. As
~ Sax Rohmer
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane.
~ Scott Anderson
Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
~ Scott Snyder
Live bravely in the time you have and smile at the void.
~ Scott Snyder
And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.
~ Scott Snyder
Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.
~ Scott Turow
Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Glitter is coined to meet the moments rage; The genuine lives on from age to age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
La vita è troppo breve per bere vini mediocri
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
~ John Alfred Spender
What we call the past is built on bits.
~ John Archibald Wheeler