Top 100 Quotes About Duration
#1. Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)
Pierre Janet
#2. It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.
William S. Burroughs
#3. Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently.
W.G. Sebald
#4. I'd much rather you assumed for yourself a higher rank than mere menial labourer for the duration of this great adventure.'
He paused. 'You wish me to strike heroic poses against the sunset, Lady Envy?'
'Indeed!
Steven Erikson
#5. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#6. Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
Tennessee Williams
#8. The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
Myles Munroe
#9. Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
Kabir Bedi
#10. All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Nicholas Culpeper
#11. No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
Annie Dillard
#12. Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.
Paulo Freire
#13. It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
R. Kent Hughes
#15. In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
Radhanath Swami
#16. It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.
Raj Chetty
#17. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history.
Camille Flammarion
#18. Marriage ... is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
Immanuel Kant
#19. Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.
Joy DeGruy
#20. Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#22. The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#24. A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.
Buzz Aldrin
#25. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.
Eric Maisel
#27. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#28. Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.
William Lane Craig
#29. After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?
William Benton Clulow
#30. Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
Julio Cortazar
#31. I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#32. The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore De Balzac
#33. From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
Richard Cobden
#34. The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
Edmund Husserl
#35. I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.
James Madison
#36. the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation - not how long we live but how fully and how well.1
J. Oswald Sanders
#37. Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.
Friedrich Ruckert
#38. Gary's immediate thought was that either this woman wasn't planning on wearing much in the way of clothing for the duration of her stay, or she liked to wear clothes repeatedly until they were ripe.
Phil Wohl
#39. Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
Roger Zelazny
#40. Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
Samuel Johnson
#41. History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
Terence McKenna
#42. Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life.
What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.
Rick Warren
#43. I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
#44. Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit.
John Eldredge
#45. I was the future and shall be the past - I am a timeless, everlasting Now, so short I have no end, so long I have no duration.
Nanamoli Thera
#46. Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.
Arthur W. Pink
#47. It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Gene Weingarten
#48. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.
Thomas Paine
#49. Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian
#50. Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.
Ward Connerly
#51. Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#52. One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
Hanif Kureishi
#53. Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#56. War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
Abraham Lincoln
#57. Matter and spirit are of equal duration; both are self-existent, - they never began to exist.
Terryl L. Givens
#58. To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.
Italo Calvino
#59. May be that is how life is. Clouds, whether bright or dark, they just keep passing. The duration they stay with us depends on whether the circumstance around us is breezy, windy or stormy.
Abhishek Krishnan
#60. Wrapping his hand up in her ponytail, he gently but firmly tugged until she lifted her face to his. If I'm going to be in your bed, Sophie, you're mine for the duration.
Jill Shalvis
#61. Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
William Law
#63. Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.
Charles Dickens
#66. The decision is not mine to make," Philip said. "I promised Meg to Miss Marianne for the duration of her visit. You will have to ask her.
Julianne Donaldson
#67. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
Steven Pressfield
#68. As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#69. It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#71. Good people will outlast the rule of the Church. No rule of law lasts for long, and there is nothing that can wholly destroy the good and evil that lives in man. It's ours to own for the duration of time and whatever exists beyond.
Nathan Yocum
#72. There is nothing called a permanent love or a temporary love. Love is love. Love may be for a smaller duration or a longer duration.
Girdhar Joshi
#73. There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is no longer an event, it is another duration, compressed, insignificant, not narrated, grim, without recourse: true mourning not susceptible to any narrative dialectic.
Roland Barthes
#74. I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.
Thomas Jefferson
#75. All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle, ... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#76. ...for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.
Diane Vaughan
#77. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
Abraham Lincoln
#78. Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#79. The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
Russell M. Nelson
#80. We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
Ernest Cline
#81. I think it would be prudent to advise you that due to extraordinary circumstances beyond our control, the original plan we had for participating in and extending the duration of the IPT Main Event has been drastically altered, specifically as it pertains to certain individuals competing -
Elle Lothlorien
#82. I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
Walter Savage Landor
#83. No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
Baruch Spinoza
#84. The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
Honore De Balzac
#85. One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.
Tom Hanks
#86. The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.
Niall Ferguson
#87. So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
Hermann Hesse
#88. A life of short duration ... could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
Viktor E. Frankl
#89. So if a beautiful alien in a flying saucer invites you into her time machine, step with care. You might fall into one of these trapped repeating histories of only finite duration.
Stephen Hawking
#90. Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!
Charles Darwin
#91. With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.
Hideo Kojima
#92. So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes - to treachery, treason, and adultery - by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma. In
Amor Towles
#93. Experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.
Thomas Hardy
#94. The life or lives of man may be regarded as constituting a curve - an arc of time-experience subtended by the duration of the individual Will to Life.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#95. The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.
Lorenzo Scupoli
#96. When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.
Z'EV
#98. Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.
Lisa Gansky
#99. Love for shorter duration is going to be more intense and more fulfilling, and more memorable.
Girdhar Joshi
#100. Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
Aristotle.
