Quotes of: Defining-moment Keyword

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

House of Dolls

You live your life without realizing these things until you take yourself away from the usual stuff, even for a brief moment…only then do you see your life in a different perspective.

High

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it’s all the moments you missed out on.

Holding on to Heaven

Fear commonly makes adversaries of us. But sometimes, in the rarest, most frightening moments, fate brings together people, forming everlasting friendships and occasionally, the remarkable bond of love.

Hijacked!

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

The Buried Giant

You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.

The Big Book of YOU: Spiritual Principles for Creating Your Life and Accepting What Is

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Bloom

If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.

Broken Pieces

We are strengthening by different experiences in life; Sad times, happy moments. Poverty, riches. Failure, success. Troubles, good times. Losing, winning.

Beautiful Quotes

In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.

Broken

...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.

The Borrower

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.

Bend Sinister

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

Betrayed

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

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman