T Quotes
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“There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“There are moments when I resent even buying a book. But browsing is wonderful. I like to go and browse everywhere, even fashion shops. You can get influences from anywhere.”
“There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.”
Source: Dawn: A Novel
“There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!”
“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“There are moments when I would love to fall asleep with my head on somebody's shoulder, just because I was so used to that for so long.”
“There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.”
Source: The Black Prince
“There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.”
“There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.”
“There are moments when it's unbelievable how people who work on the hair or on the little bit of skin here, they have no other care or interest since this part of their job is the only thing that needs to look good. So you have to push everybody to the side so that you can have a connection with your actor and give some air to your actor.”
“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.”
“There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.”
Source: The Forsyte Saga
“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”
“There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.”
“There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.”
Source: Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.”
“There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.”
Source: Futures Imperfect
“There are moments when something we've idealized all our lives changes and becomes something less. Not by a noticeable amount, just an infinitesimal disappointment. But it's like going from 100 percent to 99.9 percent - imperceptible quantitatively, but dramatically different qualitatively, from flawless to flawed.”
“There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.”
“There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.”
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to let one's mind function and tries to convince oneself that the future will not be, and the past has not been. At such moments, when the will is not governed or modified by reflection and the only incentives that remain in life are our physical instincts, I can understand how a child, being particularly prone owing to lack of experience to fall into such a state, may without the least hesitation or fear, with a smile of curiosity deliberately set fire to his own house - and then fan the flames where is brothers, his father an his mother, all of who he loves dearly, are sleeping.”
Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
“There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.”
“There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.”
“There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.”
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.”
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.”
Source: The substance of man
“There are moments when we have to return to our roots.”
“There are moments when words fail, but emotions never lie.”
“There are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that's amazing. That's better than any drug, I would imagine. People take drugs to disappear from themself, and that's what it feels like when you hit that moment.”
“There are moments when you are, um, encouraged to dress a certain way. But I can't. It just erodes my soul. That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it - that's awesome. People always attribute being a feminist to hating girls being sexual, and that's not it at all. I'm just not into it.”
“There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.”
Source: Getting The Girl
“There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.”
Source: Attachments
“There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.”
“There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.”
“There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.”
“There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.”
“There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.”
“There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.”
“There are moments when you love babies, and you're like, "God, they are the reason why we exist." Then they start crying, and you're like "God! Jesus!"”
“There are moments when you should be anchoring your identity—and your sense of self-worth—on who you are, not just what you do.”
Source: Existential Courage: A Survival Guide For Your Existential Crisis
“There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no matter what you choose, you will have altered your life in a permanent way. Either way, there will be consequences.”
Source: Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
“There are moments when your heart breaks an swells at the same time.
When there is so much love flooding in and out of your soul that you wonder if the tide will whisk you along with it.”
Source: Until I Knew Myself
“There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.”
Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings