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Quotes About Moments

Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.
~ Anonymous
Time is eternity begun.
~ James Montgomery
You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each day is different.
~ Phillip Hewett
A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.
~ Algernon Swinburne
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
~ Carl Sandburg
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
~ John Milton
Time is the stuff life's made of.
~ David Belasco
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
~ Johann von Goethe
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
~ Ovid
speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.
~ Jacob Braude
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier Bresson
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
~ George Santayana
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
~ Willa Cather
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
~ Anonymous
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
~ Andre Gide
Every second is of infinite value.
~ Johann von Goethe
Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
~ Amelia Barr
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.
~ Mary Catherwood
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~ Louis L'Amour
The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!
~ Eliza Cook
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
~ Pearl Bailey
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
~ Ruth Benedict
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
~ Henry David Thoreau