Quotes About Moments

Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time

At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable.

There were many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments really, which is not the same as terrible lifetime.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

And these were the happy moments of her life now, when the children included the father in her heart.

Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: being, things, and events are times.

WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? IN HONEYDOWN, IT WINDS UP AND WINDS DOWN HERE.

El reloj marca los minutos… pero ¿y la eternidad? ¿Qué marca la eternidad?

For the materialist historian, every epoch with which he occupies himself is only a fore-history of that which really concerns him. And that is precisely why the appearance of repetition doesn't exist for him in history; because the moments in the course of history which matter most to him become moments of the present through their index as fore-history, and change their characteristics according to the catastrophic or triumphant determination of that present.

Like a clock of life on which the seconds race, the page number hangs over the characters in a novel. Where is the reader who has not once lifted to it a fleeting, fearful glance?

A cronicler who recites events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accordance with the following truth: Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history, To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past - which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has past become citable in all its moments.

A chronicler who recites events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accordance with the following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past--which is to say, only for the redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments…

Look thy last on all things lovely Every hour…

Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.

each moment is not distinct but instead contains connections to a narrative.

Lost time is never found again.

human felicity is produced . . . by little advantages that occur every day.

often think of how so many people have walked into my life for just a few minutes and kicked up some dust, then they're gone away.

Desires grow smaller as intelligence expands, growled Le ffaçasé. I want nothing except to find a few undisturbed moments in which to read the work of the immortal Hobbes.

Small things bring joy, somedays.

Life is something very short that happens in between deaths.

Our purpose in life isn't to arrive at a destination where we find inspiration, just as the purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing – and of life – is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where we are when the music ends.

quantum moments are always benevolent.