logo

Quotes About Moments

Our choices. Our fleeting moments together.
~ Emily Giffin
Sitting with Ronan on the couch I often thought 'How can I make this moment more precious? and then I'd realize with a sense of panic that no additional meaning needed to be sought or found. This was all there was. 'But still', I would think, 'What if I can't remember the way his hands feel, his hair. What if I forget how he smells? The sound of his laugh? The shape of his two front teeth?' Time was both too contracted and forever seeming.
~ Emily Rapp
In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit....
~ Emma Donoghue
I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
~ Emma Donoghue
Wowbagger could not hold her eyes. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
~ Eoin Colfer
In being slower, time is more capacious. The event is only in the moment. By speeding through life with technology, you reduce what any given moment can hold. By slowing down, you expand it.
~ Eric Brende
For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.
~ Eric Newby
You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by.
~ Erica Jong
Nous avions le temps. Lui, parce qu'il était vieux, moi parce que j'étais jeune. [We had time. Him, because he was old, me because I was young.]
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Souvent, les amants se tiennent par la main et rêvent ensemble de leur bonheur à venir. Mais, aussi longtemps qu'ils vivent, jamais leur bonheur ne sera plus grand qu'en cet instant où leurs mains se nouent et leurs rêves se mélangent. »
~ Amin Maalouf
Saatim tam on iki, endiÅŸeli deÄŸilim diyemem. Gelirse, bir hayata yeniden baÅŸlanacak. Y?llar ve y?llar geçti ama zaman, bir yans?mad?r: geçmiÅŸ saatler ve günler, haftalar ve y?llar sonunda ayn? kül y???n?na sahip olurlar. Gelecek, sonsuza kadar gitse de saniye saniye yaÅŸan?r.
~ Amin Maalouf
Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.
~ Amit Ray
Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises
~ Amit Ray
Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
~ Amitav Ghosh
We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time.
~ Amy Bloom
We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time. You can imagine how often he said that.
~ Amy Bloom
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of—and relationship to—time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. ACRES of it. . CARES about it. RACES against it .
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Not every day is going to be this good." Trav kissed his chest. "No," he said softly. "Let's make sure we remember this one, okay?" "For how long?" Trav asked, half-playful, half-serious. "Forever. Until tomorrow. When I fall in love with you again.
~ Amy Lane
Everything mortal has moments immortal
~ Amy Lowell
I climb to the very top step and look behind me at the wall of memories. Who are we in the end? A collection of photos? How do we know what is truly lived if we cannot remember it?
~ An Na
Sabeis, muchachos? No creais que al morir recordareis hazañas, ni sucesos importantes que os hayan ocurrido. No creais que recordareis grandes aventuras, ni siquiera momentos felices que aún podais vivir. Solo cosas como ésta: una tarde así, unas copas de vino, esas rosas cubiertas de agua.
~ Ana María Matute
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
~ Anais Nin
Belki de insanlar? en çok bölen ?ey, kimilerinin her ?eyden önce geçmi?te, kimilerinin de yaln?z içinde bulunduklar? dakikada ya?amalar?d?r.
~ Andre Maurois