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Quotes About Moments

the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
~ Mohsin Hamid
our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
~ Mohsin Hamid
but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed
~ Mohsin Hamid
but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
~ Mohsin Hamid
You know, one meets so many people, the years pass and pass, but there are certain times, certain people— . . . They take up room. So much room. I was married to Howard for twenty-eight years and yet he made only a piddling dent in my memory. A little nick. But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan. . . .
~ Monica Wood
There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.
~ Montaigne
Pas de doute, avec ce jour, j'ai vécu un de plus que je n'aurais dû
~ Montaigne
A vida é por vezes triste e muitas vezes aborrecida mas de vez em quando há groselhas no bolo.
~ Nancy Mitford
There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth . . ..
~ Nancy Mitford
She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.
~ Naomi Novik
It is difficult to predict what our finest moments will be, but we know when they happen.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Aquella noche Mijail me contó que él creía que la vida nos concede a cada uno de nosotros unos escasos momentos de pura felicidad. A veces son sólo dias o semanas. A veces, años. Todo depende de nuestra fortuna. El recuerdo de esos momentos nos acompaña para siempre y se transforma en un país de la memoria al que tratamos de regresar durante el resto de nuestra vida sin consegurilo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Te mi je no?i Mijail rekao da on misli da nam život svima priskrbi nekoliko rijetkih trenutaka ?iste sre?e. Katkad je to samo nekoliko dana ili tjedana. Katkad godine. Sve ovisi o našoj sudbini. Uspomena na te trenutke prati nas zauvijek i pretvara se u zemlju uspomena u koju se pokušavamo vratiti ostatak života, bezuspješno.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
que la vida pasa volando, especialmente la parte que vale la pena vivir.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Life flies by, especially the bit that's worth living.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Vrijeme ne postoji, zato ga ne možemo gubiti.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memories from those moments stays with us forever and turns into a country of memory to which we try to go back for the rest of our lives without ever being able to
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Few are the occasions when life allows us to stroll through our dreams, caressing a lost memory with our hands.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Solo se quiere de verdad una vez en la vida Julian, aunque uno no se de cuenta
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julián, even if one isn't aware of it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Uno sabe que está vivo porque duele, porque de repente todo importa y porque cuando ese breve momento se acaba, el resto de su existencia se transforma en un recuerdo al que intenta regresar en vano mientras le queda aliento en el cuerpo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Az ember csak egyszer szeret igazán az életben, még ha nem is veszi észre.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Uno se da cuenta del vacío en el que ha dejado pasar el tiempo hasta que vive de verdad. A veces la vida, no los días quemados, es solo un instante, un día, una semana o un mes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon