Quotes About Moments

Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.

A certain peace had come over me. I was discovering that time, long-term time made of days, weeks and months, and not of horrific moments as before, was operating in my favor. Nothing else was, but that didn't worry me. Time was enough. I clung on to time, and consequently to learning, the only human activity that makes time our ally.

Maureen closed her eyes. Listen to me, Earl. It's yourself you ought to be thinking about. Life goes by so darn fast, every wasted moment is a crime. One blue eye opened and fixed on him. And every crime is a wasted moment.

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there—his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.

Time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, Loss, Loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

La vida es el momento de tomar decisiones, Walker Boh. Y la muerte es el momento de recordar lo que hemos decidido.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.

Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called Living

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.

Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones.

I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING." WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?

Lots of things have never happened before. We're only born once.

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.

It felt like those treasured moments in bed when you're just awake enough to know that you're still nicely asleep.

So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.

we must learn to savor the spectacles as they come, and appreciate the rare thrills that punctuate the otherwise monotonous passage of time.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

The secret of Zen masters is discovering the path of return to such moments, and knowing how to pave the way for such moments to arise. The masters know how to use the dazzling light of those moments to illuminate the journey of return, the journey that begins from nowhere and has no destination.

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.