Top 41 Momentary Life Quotes
#1. Momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.
Victor Hugo
#2. ... Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#3. Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')
Dogen
#4. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.
Jasper Fforde
#5. IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.
Haruki Murakami
#6. A momentary presence of a person, at times, can comfortably numb his absence in your life.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#7. A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-
And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd
The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!
Omar Khayyam
#8. Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items.
Sunil Raina
#10. My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Consider the whole universe whereof thou art but a very little part, and the whole age of the world together, whereof but a short and very momentary portion is allotted unto thee, and all the fates and destinies together, of which how much is it that comes to thy part and share.
Marcus Aurelius
#12. I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary
you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#13. Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
Andy Mulcahy
#14. When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.
Haruki Murakami
#17. Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#18. There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life's reward.
Bryant McGill
#19. An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
#20. The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
Pat Conroy
#21. A thrilling, brilliant and electrifying life is yours the moment you wake-up.
Bryant McGill
#22. This momentary bridge. The wonder of a shared memory, returned. Of a place once theirs and a life that had already been lived.
Paul Yoon
#23. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
Francis Quarles
#24. O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Ada Cambridge
#25. Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. - EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring,
R. Scott Bakker
#26. Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#27. I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
Marcel Proust
#28. There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#29. The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
Angus Wilson
#30. Beauty is momentary in the mind
The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.
Wallace Stevens
#31. In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
Eckhart Tolle
#32. I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
Paddy Chayefsky
#33. The greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.
Marah Ellis Ryan
#34. Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'
David Platt
#35. Paul says that our troubles are "light." Granted I may not see them as light in the midst of trauma, but looking back on them, they may seem light. He also says they are "momentary." They only last for a short time.
Lisa Bedrick
#36. Thomas Paine wrote in "The Age of Reason," "In this case, the person who is irreverently called the son of God, and sometimes God himself, would have nothing else to do than to travel from world to world, in an endless succession of deaths, with scarcely a momentary interval of life.
Anonymous
#37. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#39. Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself.
Julian Fellowes
#40. When you understand the internal process of life, first time, you realize that the personal identity that you carry in your mind, exists only at the time of momentary experience, and as the experience is forgotten, so the personal identity gets forgotten with it.
Roshan Sharma
#41. At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.
Sandy Gingras
