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Moment Quotes (page 32)

Marcel Proust quote: "the memory of a particular image is but regret for a..."
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.. Marcel Proust
John Steinbeck quote: "Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history..."
Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course. John Steinbeck
After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique. John Crowley
Ayn Rand quote: "Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than..."
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. Ayn Rand
Jacques-Henri Lartigue quote: "I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at..."
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me... C. S. Lewis
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new! Kenneth Grahame
Haruki Murakami quote: "In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for..."
In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. Haruki Murakami
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment Galway Kinnell
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps. Frantz Fanon
Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. Louisa May Alcott
Philip Larkin quote: "Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and..."
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. Philip Larkin
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. Armistead Maupin
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound. Steve Martin

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