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Quotes About Moments

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
~ Queen Victoria
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Every day of your life is a page of your history
~ Arabian Proverb
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
~ Tony Benn
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
~ Emily Dickinson
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
~ Henry James
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
~ Ugo Betti
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
~ Proverb
We live but a fraction of our lives
~ Henry David Thoreau
So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.
~ Francis William Bourdillon
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
~ Kate Winslet
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
~ Plutarch
Life is a great bundle of little things.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.
~ Richard Bach
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.
~ William Blake
So many faces in and out of my life; some will last, some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and good byes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
~ Unknown
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
~ Marcia Wieder
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
~ Tennessee Williams
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
~ Anais Nin
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
~ Unknown
Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you're waiting for don't pass you by.
~ Unknown