“It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
Quoted, Short Stories
Source: The Freshest Boy
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names.”
Translations and adaptations, If We Only Have Love (1968)
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”
Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-2011 of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (14 April 2011)
Reviews, Three-and-a-half star reviews
2016, Convention (August 2016)
Context: No one -- no one -- has given more for our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families.... They represent the very best of our country. They continue to inspire us every day, every moment. They serve as a powerful reminder of the true strength of America. We have to do everything we can for those families, and honor them, and be humbled by them.
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 52
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IV : The Party; Gilbert Markham about Frederick Lawrence