For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere. — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime. — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying. — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly… — John Green Copy Share Image
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out,… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable… — Johann Ludwig Tieck Copy Share Image
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never… — Eva Braun Copy Share Image
If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I… — Rebecca Lim Copy Share Image
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One… — William James Copy Share Image
Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
“Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.” — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
