Frozen Time Quotes

Photography is a form of time travel.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.