Moment Quotes

“The day is conscious of itself.”

“Time itself comes in drops.”

“Either define the moment or the moment will define you.”

“By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

“what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.”

“But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.”

“We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.”

“and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.”

“Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.”

“When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!”

“Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”

“Existence begins in every instant.”

“The moment is timeless.”

“What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.”

“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.”

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”

“We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.”

“We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.”