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"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 on Time

More quotes about Time

  • "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

    Roger Babson on Time

  • "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

    Abraham Lincoln on Time

  • "Lost time is never found again."

    Benjamin Franklin on Time

  • "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

    Jean de La Fontaine on Time

  • "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

    C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by Susan Sontag

  • "Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

  • "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

  • "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

  • "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

  • "For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."

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