Momentary Significance Quotes

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.