Passing Moments Quotes

#1. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

#2. I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

Marc Maron

#3. You must put aside the passing moments of terror and temptation, and focus on what's most important in the

Anthony Robbins

#4. It is easy to miss the possibility that every person who crosses your path can become an event and a memory, good or bad, to fill in the hours with experience instead of tedium, to break the monotony of the passing moments.

R.A. Salvatore

#5. Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#6. I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Kyra Davis

#7. Right now a moment of time is passing by! ... We must become that moment.

Paul Cezanne

#8. Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

Boris Pasternak

#10. The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

China Mieville

#11. Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded us as villains. There was no murderer to catch, no Strigoi trauma to overcome. There was just him and me and the feelings that had burned between us for so long.

Richelle Mead

#12. Every second that goes by is a point of no return.

J.R. Rim

#13. I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Time is no friend, it has turned its back and will not help, will not move anything, will not slow things down that are moving. ....... Where it has given hours, days, years, it will not yield moments. Where it has given moments so freely and with abundances, it now gives eternity.

Albert French

#15. I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

George Gissing

#16. The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.

Marc Parent

#17. We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Robert M. Pirsig

#18. Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

Robert Kennedy

#19. The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me:
she look'd down - a silence of some moments followed.

Laurence Sterne

#20. A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Julia Cameron

#21. She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these last seconds she might turn and see the face she would never see again.

Patricia Highsmith

#22. It was summer here and he wondered if there existed a different season for every corner of this world in this moment and the moments to come. Whether if you traveled fast and far enough you could witness a year passing in a single journey.

Paul Yoon

#23. I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

Jane Smiley

#24. There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.

Robin Wasserman

#25. The cock does not just crow! It crows for a reason. Do not just concentrate on the cock crowing and mind the reason why it crows; the time !

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#27. To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Jack Kornfield

#28. It's lost time that matters - the time between time - the moments when you forget time and life just happens.

Chloe Thurlow

#29. Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.

Greg Rucka

#30. At the end of the day
all we ever need is
something
that helped
pass the time
and something
that keeps time from passing.

Sanober Khan

#31. A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

John Keats

#32. Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Joel Osteen

#33. The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

Norman Mailer

#34. To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

Louis J. Halle

#35. With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

Rumi

#36. They can keep men in here, under lock and key, deep in the dungeon until the final moments of their lives, so that men like York and me will never taste the rain. But they cannot keep us from passing our condensation on to the sky. They cannot keep us from raining down in China.

Rene Denfeld

#37. My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

Kevin Hart

#38. That's the truth, I guess. We don't catch moments in the passing. We don't catch them at all. We just reach and scramble and wish for fairy godmothers and Prince Charmings. It's too bad none of it is real. It really is too bad.

Amy Zhang

#39. It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

Marya Mannes

#40. Time is priceless gift.
Time defined moments.
Time lost can not be redefined.
May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. By and by we shall say goodbye

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Michel De Montaigne

#43. Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Luis Cernuda

#44. Sometimes... the smallest drops in the bucket make the biggest ripples.

A.M. Hodgson

#45. Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

William Butler Yeats

#46. With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Haruki Murakami

#47. The time in your life can go by in the blink of an eye, so look for what lasts a lifetime.

J.R. Rim