You are not important because of how long you live, you…

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

— Benjamin Franklin

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

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…

— S. Jay Olshansky

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

— Raj Chetty

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with…

— Andre Maurois

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;…

— Teresa of Avila

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in…

— Thomas Browne

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it…

— Hermann Hesse

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a…

— Charles Duke

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being;…

— Charles Darwin

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot…

— Kabir Bedi

The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those…

— Isaac Newton