77 Moments And Quotes

In every story, there are moments that capture the essence of the narrative and quotes that resonate long after the final page is turned. These impactful fragments have the power to inspire, provoke thought, and evoke a spectrum of emotions. In this carefully curated collection, we bring you the top 77 moments and quotes that stand out for their timeless relevance and profound significance. Whether you're seeking motivation, contemplation, or simply a touch of nostalgia, these selections are bound to leave a lasting impression. Join us as we journey through some of the most compelling snippets of wisdom and memorable experiences.

1. “Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.” - Nick Hornby

2. “Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.” - Gwendolyn Brooks

3. “If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.” - Goethe

4. “With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.” - Haruki Murakami

5. “Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't.. Just a trick of the woods! Just a moment, One peculiar passing moment. Must it all be either less or more, Either plain or grand? Is it always 'or'? Is it never 'and'? That's what woods are for: For those moments in the woods... Oh, if life were made of moments, Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one. First a witch, then a child, then a Prince, then a moment-- Who can live in the woods? And to get what you wish, only just for a moment-- These are dangerous woods.. Let the moment go.. Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,' Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before. Now I understand--And it's time to leave the woods.” - Stephen Sondheim

6. “I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.” - Laura Pritchett

7. “some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.” - Charles Bukowski

8. “It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.” - Carlos María Domínguez

9. “There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.” - Aleksandar Hemon

10. “We make patterns, we share moments.” - Jenny Downham

11. “Moments. All gathering towards this one.” - Jenny Downham

12. “I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.” - Roman Payne

13. “It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.” - Steve Yarbrough

14. “My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives.” - Douglas Coupland

15. “It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.” - Mizu Sahara

16. “O friend, for the morrow let us not worryThis moment we have now, let us not hurryWhen our time comes, we shall not tarryWith seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry” - Omar Khayyám

17. “She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

18. “When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.” - Jim Geoghan

19. “Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)” - Mike Van Hoozer

20. “Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me” - Dr. Amit Abraham

21. “There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything.” - Mary Balogh

22. “We must try to remember everything, every movement, every stretch, every convulsion that made us how we move as we readily grow in our outer body that encompasses the planets, the suns and the moons in every other body that we touch, in every other mouth that we kissed, in every other language that we try to comprehend; for they are not the outside of a stranger, nor are they just images of our psyche, but the very being of ourselves, the dimensional levels of our very existence weaving colours in the tapestry of creation, yet the very non-existence of the template is proof of consciousness, of ascension, of Life.” - AainaA-Ridtz A R

23. “Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.” - Mary Balogh

25. “We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?” - Christine Feehan

26. “All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique” - Catherine Fisher

27. “I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.” - Paulo Coelho

28. “I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.” - Anna Godbersen

29. “I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.” - Samuel Beckett

30. “I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.” - Samuel Beckett

31. “Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?” - Jodi Picoult

32. “A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.” - Haruki Murakami

33. “Today is an ephemeral ghost...A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...A day of unlocked potential.Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you? Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!” - Vera Nazarian

34. “I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge” - Jeremy Aldana

35. “I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.” - Melissa de la Cruz

36. “But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

37. “But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator” - S.M. Boyce

38. “In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.” - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

39. “We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell.” - Gina Lake

40. “There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.” - Shannon Alder

41. “At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.” - David Levien

42. “Every moment is the paradox of now or never.” - Simon Van Booy

43. “It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.” - Justin Taylor

44. “Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.” - Chuck Palahniuk

45. “No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do” - danielle steel

46. “I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.” - Sarra Manning

47. “They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.” - Liane Moriarty

48. “Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.” - Shauna Niequist

49. “There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.” - Mitch Albom

50. “Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.” - Franz Grillparzer

51. “If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be your life, your voice, your reason to be. My love, my heart is breathing for this moment in time. I'll find the words to say before you leave me today.” - One Direction

52. “Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss.” - Shannon L. Alder

53. “I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.” - Kellie Elmore

54. “...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...” - John Geddes

55. “I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.” - C.S. Lewis

56. “Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/Beauty, in this world.” - Muriel Barbery

57. “Funny hoe everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light. Or maybe I just wasn't looking. I hadn't known that light could be a feeling and sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.” - Megan Miranda

58. “This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence.” - Muriel Barbery

59. “You know I'll be Your Life Your VoiceYour Reason To BeMy Love My Heart Is Breathing For this Moment in TimeI'll Find the words to sayBefore You leave me Today” - One Direction

60. “The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

61. “As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the sun met her hair and for that one instant the symbol blazed out, those particular moments were eternal. Those moments actually went somewhere. Into a file of moments that existed out of time's range and could not be pilfered by God.” - Louise Erdrich

62. “There were moments in a person's life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper's heart broke would be one of those for her.” - Kady Cross

63. “Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.” - Susan Sontag

64. “I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.” - Janette Rallison

65. “...and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.” - Joe Meno

66. “When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.” - Belinda Jeffrey

67. “As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.” - Natalie Goldberg

68. “A moment can be left inside the memory of time.” - Munia Khan

69. “In moments such as these, it’s the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.” - Rebecca A. Rogers

70. “Iubirea e banală. Îți provoacă o intoxicație chimică foarte asemănătoare cu aceea dată de o reușită mult așteptată sau de mersul cu mare viteză. În acele momente, nu mai ținem cont de nimic și ne concentrăm doar asupra propriei noastre delectări; viața de zi cu zi ne este distorsionată și devenim iraționali: ne simțim fericiți și ni se pare că totul este posibil.” - Liza Marklund

71. “Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led.” - Steve Maraboli

72. “In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.” - Donna Lynn Hope

73. “Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.” - Sam Starbuck

74. “How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.” - Dianna Hardy

75. “Certain moments in my life are imprinted in me memory.They're easy to recall with perfect clarity, whether I want to remember them or not. Any small thing can trigger them: a phrase, a smell, a thought. It brings everything back like I'm reliving that moment, a brief scene in the movie of my life, complete with how horrible I felt at the time. And I usually felt horrible in those moments that I want to forget that stick around.” - Elizabeth Norris

76. “Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.” - Dillon Burroughs

77. “The most unbearable moments, seeing your dear one crying and you cannot hold her because it is not allowed.” - M.F. Moonzajer