Fleeting Moment Quotes

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Today will never come again.

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The present will not long endure.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.

I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.