Instant Quotes

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. (Marcus Aurelius)

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Voltaire

Instant gratification takes too long.

Carrie Fisher

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

David Bowie

The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.

A. E. Housman

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anaïs Nin

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Huneker

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Brigitte Bardot

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Franz Kafka

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory. (Sam Savage)

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Anna Sui

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Henry David Thoreau

Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Thomas Carlyle

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

Michael Chabon

I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

Michael Chabon

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Anthony Robbins

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. (Pliny the Elder)

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

Augusten Burroughs

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

Rebecca Wells

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

Giorgio Vasari

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

Eva Ibbotson

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