Quotes About Moments

...[M]ay its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell,— And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time....

Day does not forestall nightmares - Night is not needed for dreams - There is no better time than here - No better place than now -

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cÅ"ur de l'homme, faut-il s'en étonner ? Il n'y a qu'une minute de la vie à la mort.

The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There

In moments among my various agonies, I noticed the beauty that surrounded me, the wonder of things both small and large:

Tiny bumps in time shape our lives, even though we spend hours trying to make long-term plans.

sunrise glows in carpe-diem pink aflame with marbled-gold moments

sunset ablaze in carpe-diem pink fleeting moments of glowing gold feathered in hourglass-sands gray with the lucent glimmer of infinity— and thus the blissful evening sky exhales gently the passing day and lights up in its elation that the world has made it through to relive night's starry bouquet

Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.

Indeed, it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mounting of clichés.

Time kept passing without my consent.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life.

minutes bloom hours flower seconds vine through the hands of time — days hustle weeks speed decades scatter in confetti'd years

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the little life of man. Cicero has termed them intercisiva tempora, and the ancients were not ignorant of their value; nay, it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate, while under the operation of rubbing after the bath.

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages...

Time more than flies. It tramples. It loots. It mugs.

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages... in the climate of England there are, for the lover of Nature, days which are worth whole months, — I might say — even years.

But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Pisces — remembers things that happened 25 years ago, forgets things that happened 5 seconds ago

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?

Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days.

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.