Quotes About Duration Of Life

#1. Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

Chanakya

#3. In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Radhanath Swami

#4. It is not the duration but the donation for the humanity that determines the value of life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.

Elizabeth Harrower

#7. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

S. Jay Olshansky

#8. A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

Myles Munroe

#9. The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration. From now on I'm thinking only of me.

Joseph Heller

#10. While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

Elizur Wright

#11. Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Arthur Nersesian

#12. The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action.

Debasish Mridha

#13. God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

Rick Warren

#14. By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Lucretius

#15. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie Ten Boom

#16. That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged - to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Hermann Hesse

#17. What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

Blaise Pascal

#18. The value of life is not in duration but in its donation.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out

Seyi Ayoola

#20. With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

Thomas Malthus

#21. Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Jessica Simpson

#22. The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

S. Jay Olshansky

#23. There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Simone De Beauvoir

#24. Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

Umberto Eco

#25. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

Julio Cortazar

#31. 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

#32. Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Roger Zelazny

#33. 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

#34. Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit.

John Eldredge

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. The measures of a life is not in its duration but in its donation.

Debasish Mridha

#39. 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

#40. Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#41. The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

Russell M. Nelson

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

Ronald Dworkin

#48. The measure of life is not by its duration, but by the difference that you have made in this world.

Debasish Mridha