"Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text."
Read quote
3 likes
Moments quotes
Moments
3.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Moments
Browse quotes that often appear alongside moments — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Moments quotes (page 36 of 168)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment."
Read quote
3 likes
"Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . ."
Read quote
3 likes
"We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too.""
Read quote
3 likes
"Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every moment is precious. And precarious."
Read quote
3 likes
"The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment."
Read quote
3 likes
"Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment."
Read quote
3 likes
"We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs."
Read quote
3 likes
"I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father..."
Read quote
3 likes
"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."
Read quote
3 likes
"I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time."
Read quote
3 likes
"At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every moment is travel - if understood."
Read quote
3 likes
"Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do."
Read quote
3 likes
"The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world."
Read quote
3 likes
"...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?"
Read quote
3 likes