The Moment Quotes

“We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“ We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life’s random rhythms.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“You only begin to grasp the import of an event – and its larger implications vis-à-vis your life – long after it has entered into that realm marked ‘memory’.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Toţi avem poveşti pe care nu vrem să le spunem.”
― Douglas Kennedy, Clipa

“How soon “not now” becomes “never”.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Cities can do this. Cast off their onetime identity and - while wearing the same (but now reconstructed) exterior-become something new. We as individuals can also change physical shape. We can lose weight and gain muscle, or go the other way and give in to flab. We can wear clothes that speak volumes about the images we want to present to the world. We can display our wealth, our poverty, our sense of confidence, our sense of self doubt. We can, like cities, change all the externals. But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities- it's capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got, all that we got but never wanted, all that was found and lost.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“But when you are engulfed in loss, how can you detach yourself in the transience of everything? How can I take a theoretically long view of things when every waking moment without Johannes is agony?”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Un radar fonctionne quand un champ magnétique s'établit entre deux objets. Une force d'attraction, presque : un objet envoie un signal à l'autre, et ce qu'il reçoit en retour est l'"image" du deuxième, non l'objet lui-même.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“S'asseoir quelque part en compagnie de soi-même, soudain retranché de la confusion du monde, est aussi facile qu'essentiel.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“A quel instant "pas maintenant" se transforme en "jamais”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Clipa… E un loc mult supraapreciat.”
― Douglas Kennedy, Clipa