Unrepeatable Moments Quotes

Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.