“In its last moment, the whole of my life will last only a moment.”

— Antonio Porchia

En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante.
Voces (1943)

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En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante.

Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: The Joys of Love

“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.”

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.

“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home — only the millions of last moments… nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”

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)

“I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer

“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
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.

“The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.”

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)

“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy.”

Olaf Stapledon book Star Maker

Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter X: A Vision of the Galaxy (p. 133)

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