Time Quotes

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”

“A photograph is an interruption in the flow of time.”

“What Horace says is, Eheu fugaces Anni labuntur, Postume, Postume!”

“Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity is here.”

“The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.”

“The problem with having a good time is that it goes by so fast.”

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.”

“The best evidence we have of the past is our memories. But memories are neurological states in the present.”

“Perhaps that's what I feel, an exhaustion of possibilities, a claustrophobia of Time.”

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”

“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”

“She was beautiful; but her beauty was of that order which is doomed to grievous deterioration and decay.”

“It is the event that enlightens the preceding time.”

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“Another year is gone; a traveller's shade on my head, straw sandals on my feet.”

“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.”

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

“Nae man can tether time or tide.”