Quotes About Moments

Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the meantime?

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of being grounded in a relationship.

He said there are times we must let sorrow come, learn the lesson and then move on. He said when you think about it, life is just moments. And you have to have faith that the next good moment is coming right along.

This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

Good. I hope you're having a good time, too. People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they're wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it. So do the right thing

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

at the time there were moments of extreme discomfort; but the adventure, the danger, the exhilaration of doubt and peril are in retrospect something I rather regret having lost.

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as big bursts and little bursts. Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.

Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

The first few minutes were crucial—and they were maddening

And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-longThat on the stretched forefinger of all TimeSparkle forever.

For no man under the sky lives twice

When you play the past over and over in your head, you can begin to see things in it that you missed when you were living it. You come to realize that there were moments when one word said differently, or one thing done at just the right time, would have changed everything.

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

He thinks about how, whatever being alive is, with all its pasts and presents and futures, it is most itself in the moments when you surface from a depth of numbness or forgetfulness that you didn't even know you were at, and break the surface.

its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others.