“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”
Laura Kasischke (1961) American writer
Source: The Life Before Her Eyes
Source: The Truth About Forever
“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”
Laura Kasischke (1961) American writer
Source: The Life Before Her Eyes
Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player
Excerpts from 1966 press conference, in Baseball: 8th Inning – A Whole New Ballgame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ouIk6RvUl8 (1994) by Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward <br class="br">Context: I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you’re taking painkillers … I don’t want to have to do that [... ] I don't regret one minute of the last 12 years but I think I would regret the one year that was too many.
“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 60
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Context: One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive — it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2020's, Speech during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial