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Quotes About Time

Who wouldn't appreciate maintenance free, guaranteed fresh, organic and self-cleaning relationships!  We want the happily ever after of fairy tales and the conflict-free marriages that only exist in televised fantasies.  Real relationships take time, energy, and daily care and feeding
~ Susan Scott
How much love you have is up to you and while it may seem complicated, it isn't.  Not really. It's all about our conversations.  By having honest, courageous, meaningful conversations with your partner, you can foster true connection and a fierce love that will withstand the test of time and grow stronger over the years.
~ Susan Scott
to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
~ Susan Sontag
Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
~ Susan Sontag
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
~ Susan Sontag
Most of my reading is rereading.
~ Susan Sontag
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
~ Susan Sontag
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.
~ Susan Sontag
Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.
~ Susan Sontag
We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.
~ Susan Sontag
Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility . . . Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.
~ Susan Sontag
In the real world, something is happening and no one knows what is going to happen. In the image-world, it has happened, and it will forever happen in that way.
~ Susan Sontag
But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the past: almost everything good seems located in the past, perhaps that's an illusion, but I feel nostalgic for every era before I was born; and one is freer of modern inhibitions, perhaps because one bears no responsibility for the past, sometimes I feel simply ashamed of the time in which I live.
~ Susan Sontag
With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.
~ Susan Sontag
El tiempo termina por elevar casi todas las fotografías, aun las más inexpertas, a la altura del arte.
~ Susan Sontag
No one extraordinary appears to be entirely contemporary. People who are contemporary don't appear at all: they are invisible.
~ Susan Sontag
Did I feel all that? So much? As sounds decays into inadudibility, euphoria decays into indifference, and that is always unexpected, the way exalted feelings are weakened, undone by time.
~ Susan Sontag
In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.
~ Susan Sontag
30. Of course, the canon of Camp can change. Time has a great deal to do with it. Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as fantasy when it is not our own.
~ Susan Sontag
Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground.
~ Susan Sontag
A year passes like a revolving wheel, and when the spoke of January comes round again, it finds itself in a different place. And so with pain. It does not leave us where it found us.
~ Susan Vreeland
Palmira. She's like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time.
~ Susan Vreeland
docks—I thought of these acts as love offerings to me. Despite the time and intensity he gave to others, he made me feel that I was the vessel into which he was pouring his best self. I realized I had come to love him for his hunger to bless. The
~ Susan Vreeland
The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.
~ Susan Waggoner