Gloria Naylor Quotes

You don't really know when the last time you're going to do something is; the middle can often be a bit blurry. Firsts are very potent.

You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.

When you go somewhere and think it will be your last time there, you always appreciate the beauty of it even more and want to crystallise emotions that you will keep with you forever.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

I think I'm learning how to release every day. Recognizing that everything you encounter, touch, or love can become part of you, and in essence never disappears, as long as you can recall it to memory or heart. It's all so connected that we lose everything, but also, we never lose anything.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.