Quotes About Moments

The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.

I left out certain details, but while these were important to me, they would have been to no one else: they were those moments, those parts of life, which are so purely personal and private that you can no more share them than you can share your heart or brain: in all of us there is that small and unsurrenderable core that...well, that in the end determines everything.

To live is better than not to live. Even for a few hours, in the company of friends.

This is the way that I think about my life, and I hope that you'll think of your life too. You should think about your life hoping that there will be many moments in it about which you can say; There is no place I'd rather be, there is no thing I'd rather be doing, there is nobody I'd rather be with, & this I will remember well.

Les autres mettent des semaines et des mois pour arriver à aimer, et à aimer peu, et il leur faut des entretiens et des goûts communs et des cristallisations. Moi, ce fut le temps d'un battement de paupières.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

It is no longer real, but just an illusion that I make real for my own amusement. To know the self we must make the mountains move. All we need is just an insight; not much, just a flash, a moment in which no reflection occurs. These moments go on all the time, and all the time we close up against them. We close up against a loss of self, we react, we clench, we adopt one or other strategy.

December is thirteen months long, July's one afternoon.

hours hours and hours snap up our pleasures

We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else's erased life.

Perhaps if they all remained silent for as long as possible, they'd slip out of this moment into the next one, and then the next one, until all the preceding moments were erased from memory and everything could start all over again. The ultimate American dream: the eternal present, where nothing has ever happened before what is happening now.

Accadono cose che sono come domande. Passa un minuto, oppure anni, e poi la vita risponde.

An interview, then, is a moment in a relationship between times: the time of the events, the time of the telling, and, when we factor in the archive, the time of listening.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Thomas Moore, psicoterapeuta y autor del superventas Care of the Soul,b que nuestros momentos más conmovedores son aquellos en los que nos hallamos desequilibrados en lugar de equilibrados.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

It is always the silly things that remind me

I once read that life should not be about the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away.

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.

Io non conto i giorni - diceva - ma i piaceri".

Don't waste one second on anything. Watch the sun come up, and watch it go down.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.