Quotes About Time

She usually loved snowy days. Especially during this more leisurely time in her life when events and appointments were seldom urgent.

Sometimes a company wants to create an un-Passionate experience for strategic reasons. Shopping malls contain an intentionally unfascinating environment in the middle, so that customers are more likely to flock to the stores. That's also why you won't see a clock in a mall (so you lose track of time and stay there longer). And it's also why the acoustics are bad in malls, so that stores seem like a comforting alternative.

Married in haste, we repent at leisure.

I tend to agree with the theory that if you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last time you recalled it. With tiny differences creeping in at each cycle, the exercise of our memory does not bring us closer to the past but draws us further away.

When I was shooting with collodion, I wasn't just snapping a picture. I was fashioning, with fetishistic ceremony, an object whose ragged black edges gave it the appearance of having been torn from time itself.

How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.

If you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last time you recalled it.

Certain moments in the creative process, moments when I am really seeing, are weirdly expansive, and I develop a hyper-attuned visual awareness, like the aura-ringed optical field before a migraine. Radiance coalesces about the landscape, rich in possibility, supercharged with something electric, insistent. Time slows down, becomes ecstatic.

photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. As I held my childhood pictures in my hands, in the tenderness of my "remembering," I also knew that with each photograph I was forgetting.

Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.

We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don't worth the innocence. And innocent people remain the sufferer and vulnerable to the world.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Ja sam tada mislio suprotno: "Požuri da ostariš. Strahovito si zelen i gorak." Kako da se oslobodim mladosti koja je u stvari samo beskorisna mana?

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.

El carácter sucesivo de la escritura se aviene mal al discurso casi siempre instantáneo o simultáneo de la vida.

No estimo res més, excepte l'ombra viatgera d'un núvol. El lent record dels dies que són passats per sempre.

Els xiprers recollien claror de cel plorada en miralls momentanis.

I don't know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.