Stop Time Quotes

• We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

  Christine Feehan

  Doe, Way, Moments

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.175, Penguin

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• I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us.

  Mary Oliver

  Sometimes, Wonderful, Breaths

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• The purpose of art is to stop time.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Time, Art

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• I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

  Alice Sebold

  Way, Cameras, Bones

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

  Kim Edwards

  Time, Father, Rain

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Real, People, Dimensions

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• When the world stops, time stops.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Samadhi

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• Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

  Sara Zarr

  Buttons, Want, Faces

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• Time, that takes survey of all the world,
  Must have a stop.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, World, Surveys

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

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• Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

  Charles Simic

  Secret, Wish, Poetry Is

  Charles Simic (2015). “The Life of Images: Selected Prose”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Wine, Simple, Glasses

  "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.

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• Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

  Questlove

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• But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

  Anne Michaels

  Darkness, Grace, World

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.175, Emblem Editions

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• True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

  Phil Cousineau

  Ancient, Modern, Myth

  Phil Cousineau (2003). “Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives”, p.19, Conari Press

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• Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

  Diane Ackerman

  Healing, Elements, Tables

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.27, Vintage

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• Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.

  Anna Banks

  Morning, Escaping, People

  Anna Banks (2012). “Of Poseidon”, p.33, Macmillan

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• My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

  Golda Meir

  Airplane, Flying, Age

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• Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

  Rebecca West

  Giving, Nails, Fiction

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• I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

  Dave Eggers

  Life, Dream, Children

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Real

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• The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~

  William Stafford

  Letting Go, Hurt, People

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• My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.

  Jeff Buckley

  Song, Art, People

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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