“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante.
Voces (1943)
“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: Now, let there be an indefinite succession of these inferential acts of comparative perception; and it is plain that the last moment will contain objectively the whole series. Let there be, not merely an indefinite succession, but a continuous flow of inference through a finite time; and the result will be a mediate objective consciousness of the whole time in the last moment. In this last moment, the whole series will be recognized, or known as known before.
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
“We can never be closer somehow
For the moment that lasts…
Is this moment now?”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, Islands (1987)
“My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence.”
Ali Raymi (1973–2015) Boxing Knockout Artist
As quoted in "Mysterious junior flyweight Ali Raymi killed in Yemen" by Ryan Songalia, in The Ring (28 May 2015) http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/390403-mysterious-junior-flyweight-ali-raymi-killed-in-yemen <br class="br">Context: My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence. … I don’t like discussing my pre-boxing past as I feel it will be considered inappropriately semi-legendary.
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
Source: As quoted in 1990, "Rudolf Nureyev, Charismatic Dancer Who Gave Fire to Ballet's Image, Dies at 54" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/arts/rudolf-nureyev-charismatic-dancer-who-gave-fire-to-ballet-s-image-dies-at-54.html (7 January 1993)
Olaf Stapledon book Star Maker
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter X: A Vision of the Galaxy (p. 133)