Fleeting Moments Quotes - Page 2

• I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

  Marian Keyes

  Despair, Together, Fleeting

  Marian Keyes (2008). “This Charming Man”, ePenguin

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• Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Feelings, Fleeting

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  War, Joy, Fleeting

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.402, Macmillan

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• Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Tired, Wind, Land

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Time, Powerful

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• Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Son, Men, Thinking

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• I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Inner Peace, Trying

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• She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Summer, Eye, Firefly

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• Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Men, Fleeting

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

  Martin Esslin

  Fleeting, Want, Moments

  Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.16, Vintage

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• Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fleeting, Surprise, Forgotten

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• The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

  Eugene Kennedy

  Friendship, Real, Simple

  "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

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• Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

  Sarah MacLean

  Giving Up, Temptation, Soul

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• There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

  Pete Maravich

  Basketball, Dedication, Light

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• You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Wall, Museums

  Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”

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• Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.

  Shan Sa

  Pain, Sleep, Eye

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• Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're forced to look for meaning within yourself Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you 'find yourself', it's because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind - it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true self.

  Rolf Potts

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

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• Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

  Elizabeth David

  Summer, Food, Essence

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• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?

  Osric Chau

  Character, Opportunity, Boredom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

  Phillip Lim

  Thinking, Ideas, Appreciate

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Childhood

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• No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

  Andre Breton

  Life, Feelings, Enlightenment

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• You have no idea
  How much you do for mankind
  When you love God unconditionally
  Even for a fleeting moment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Ideas, Fleeting

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