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Quotes About Moments

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mistery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.
~ Simon Furman
Moments recalled like friends. It was that way or another. We're fairly certain either way. Stories. They are with us. Time doesn't forsake. It doesn't soothe or decrease. Never.
~ Simon J. Ortiz
Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.
~ Simon Reynolds
This is what we did with our time; this is how we made it Our Time.
~ Simon Reynolds
Je crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayée de batir notre amour par-delà les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse?
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Aujourd'hui, je n'ai pas vécu
~ Simone de Beauvoir
A long life filled with laughter, tears, quarrels, embraces, confessions, silences, and sudden impulses of the heart: and yet sometimes it seems that time has not moved by at all. The future still stretches out to infinity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
A moment of peril is often also a moment of kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those, which at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.
~ Sir Walter Scott
The step between time and eternity is short but terrible, and I have few moments to prepare for it.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I didn't say you could have perfect experiences, I said you could have experiences.
~ Sophie Kinsella
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.
~ George Carlin
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
~ Hallie Burnett
Life's too short to spend with important people.
~ Harry Partch
To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will always remember them.
~ Heidi Klum
There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
~ Henri Nouwen
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
~ Henry David Thoreau
Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.
~ Hillary Clinton
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
~ Hope Edelman
I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.
~ Iman Shumpert
Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!
~ Ingrid Betancourt
And anyway, life's too short.
~ J. K. Rowling
If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
~ James Lipton