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Quotes About Moments

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.
~ Clemence Poesy
Striking from the CalendarUnborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
awakening' drinkers to their optimum creative moments…to be intoxicated is to be inspired."10 It is not uncommon for ancient Chinese poets to have entire series of poems under the rubric, "Written While Drunk," including this one from the Zhang Yue (667 to 730): Once drunk, my delight knows no limits— Even better than before I'm drunk. My movements, my expressions, all turn into dance, And every word out of my mouth turns into a poem!11
~ Edward Slingerland
Think of it… not a moment is the same from one second to the next. And that moment will never come again. This is what the mind perceives of God… endless change (time) within changelessness (eternity).
~ Edward Weiss
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; sands make the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles, life. Your care to trifles give, else you may die ere you have learned to live.
~ Edward Young
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear: Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.
~ Edward Young
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living .
~ Edwin Way Teale
Between every move of a step of life towards coming after that step, carries and displays the burden of unconscious waiting; thus, every second defines that, as well.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every second of every breath, whatever happens during that, is an experience.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The time never comes back; however, memories stay in mind forever.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The time never comes back; however, the memories stay in mind forever.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Time stays silent and soundless; however, it comes out and reflects, becoming as a history.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Her broken sentences hung in midair like the pendulums of several clocks, each ticking along at a different speed, each following its own logic and reaching its own conclusions, each rising up at a different moment, each hammering its bell at a different time....
~ Eileen Chang
Watching the fragments float by for years.
~ Eileen Myles
Time passes. That's for sure.
~ Eileen Myles
those special times with him
~ Eileen Ramsay
Here's the thing about time: If you can't make the most out of any given moment, then you don't deserve a single extra second.
~ Ekko
While life is being postponed, it rushes past.
~ Elaine Fantham
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this is the night.
~ Elena Ferrante
every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives.
~ Elena Ferrante
en el mundo no había nada que ganar, que su vida estaba llena de aventuras diferentes y desatinadas igual que la mía, y que el tiempo sencillamente se escurre sin
~ Elena Ferrante