“What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.”
— Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947)
“Look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, "I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!" For it is the doom of men that they forget.”
— Merlin, following the decisive British victory over the Saxons at the Battle of Badon, in Excalibur (1981), written by Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman
“The atomic mass of a moment is equal to that of eternity.”
— Eyran Katsenelenbogen, One Time (2020).
“The Moment is coming. The Moment is me. You have to decide.”
— Steven Moffat in The Day of the Doctor (23 November 2013); "The Moment" in the guise of Rose Tyler as "Bad Wolf"
“When the time comes, there is no moment for reasoning.”
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo, (c. 1716)
“The elite of the universal religions have always substituted belief in the Infinite for the experience of it. We all need God — but only in small and measured doses. Who can look upon the burning bush and not be destroyed in its flames? Who can bear the heaven and hell of each moment blazing in time? Who can shine like a star?”
— David Zindell, in War in Heaven (1998)
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