Cry Quote by W. G. Sebald

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate…

— Kate Morton

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

“What best remind us of a person is precisely what we had forgotten (because it was of no importance, and we therefore left it…

— Marcel Proust

“Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are…

— José Saramago

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

— Beaumont Newhall

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

“Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...”

— Avijeet Das

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was…

— Stephen Chbosky

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for…

— Agnes Repplier

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will…

— Michelle Richmond

No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present…

— Max Kozloff