“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

Joan Didion (1934) American writer

“Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing… it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

“Instant acceptance of an idea is as self-defeating as instant rejection.”

Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right

“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

“In the eternal dream, eternity is the same as an instant. Maybe I will come back in an instant.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary