Quotes About Moments

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

It's important to be able to recognise and seize crux moments when they do appear, but much of the time one is faced with quotidian tasks and routines. There's an art and a science to these things; the art consists in trying to improvise more inventive means of breaking a silence and the science consists in trying to make the periods of silence bearable.

Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.

I'm painting moments. Unrepeatable, singular moments of light.

Medication and forgiveness can make for joyous moments with the dying—it

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not . . . but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories.

The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

Sometimes it seems his whole life revolves around watching and waiting. Waiting for the right moment, waiting for the right memory to capture. Hoping for that perfect minute where everything finally comes together.

the first batch of ads just after the couple broke up, and the second just before they got together again...two moments that the sponsors considered so suspenseful that the listener wouldn't be able to step away from the radio for fear of missing the resolution.

There are days that should never be. And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!

Nii et head aega õigupoolest ei olegi?» Dorrien muigas. «Ei.»

A coin uncounted is a wasted coin. A moment uncounted is a moment that never was.

I will not deny, however, that in the course of the journey, he sometimes stopped at the edge of a meadow, at the entrance to a forest, to gather some herb (always the same one, I believe): and he would then chew it with an absorbed look. He kept some of it with him, and ate it in the moments of greatest tension (and we had a number of them at the abbey!).

She said, on another day, I do think about the individuals involved, all of them and I sometimes wonder what they really felt at certain moments, I think all of them were very courageous people. Each of them displayed some kind of courage in making the changes that they did make.

Time worked unhurriedly, conscientiously. First the man was expelled from life, to reside instead in people's memories. Then he lost his right to residence in people's memories, sinking down into their subconscious minds and jumping out at someone only occasionally, like a jack-in-the-box, frightening them with the unexpectedness of his sudden, momentary appearances.

Such is time: everything passes, it alone remains; everything remains, it alone passes. And how swiftly and noiselessly it passes. Only yesterday you were sure of yourself, strong and cheerful, a son of the time. But now another time has come – and you don't even know it.

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought snap off in the brain. 

En esos momentos de la existencia en que el hombre tiene necesidad de orgullo porque tiene necesidad de amor.