Quotes About Moments

There are those moments of life that I'll always remember. Not because they were important but because you were there with me.

Os lugares que conhecemos não pertencem tampouco ao mundo do espaço, onde os situamos para maior facilidade. Não eram mais que uma delgada fatia no meio de impressões contíguas que formavam a nossa vida de então; a recordação de certa imagem não é senão saudade de certo instante; as casas, os caminhos, as avenidas são fugitivos, infelizmente, como os anos.

Moreover, I realised that life can be considered commonplace in spite of its appearing so beautiful at particular moments because in the former case one judges and underrates it on quite other grounds than itself, upon images which have no life in them.

I have never said a word to you before about my illness. But as you asked me, and as now I may die at any moment … But whatever I do I mustn't make you late; you're dining out, remember," he added, because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness.

Jean would be conscious of a curious feeling that he was living simultaneously in the immediate presence of a particular day and in other similar days of long ago.

Romanistas priver?ia mus per vien? valand? išgyventi vis? galim? džiaugsm? ir sielvart? audr?, kai tikrov?je praeit? met? metai, kol patirtume kai kuriuos iš j?, o stipriausieji mums taip ir neatsiskleist? niekados, nes randasi jie iš l?to ir mes negalime to suvokti.

It seems that events extend further than the moments in which they happen, and cannot be completely contained within them. Certainly, they spill over into the future through the memories we retain of them, but they also demand space in the time that precedes them. Certainly you will say that at that time we do not see them as they will actually be, but are they not also changed in our memory of them?

enough to make the Avenue different. The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

Marcel retrospectively remembers moments of anxious anticipation just as he imagines in advance moments when he will have forgotten what he is now feeling. For in fact we negotiate with the memory of our emotions, as much as, if not more than, with our raw emotions themselves.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange and new to you.

No es cuánto vivimos: supongo que en gran parte es cómo vivimos cada momento. Cada hora. Cada día".

The invention of the clock has altered human pleasure. There are minutes and seconds in the day now, and not enough for love.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

He hated clocks that ticked; every click a moment gone. Couldn't imagine sleeping in a room with one, drifting into unconsciousness to the sound of life slipping away.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

He wonders if a few moments of utter and total joy can be worth a lifetime of struggle. Maybe, he thinks. Maybe, if they're the right moments.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

Ci sono cose. Piccole cose che non dimenticherò, che sono niente e invece restano più forti di tutto.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Sa nu pierzi vremea cat esti in viata, sa-i saruti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i saruti si sa-i iubesti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i iubesti.

Hay frases que no se dicen para ser recordadas, sino por el placer de ver los ojos de quienes las escuchan. Hay afirmaciones que se hacen con la intención de provocar un gesto de asentimiento, negaciones que buscan la aprobación del otro; la complicidad surge de compartir instantes que no pueden evocarse.