Duration Quotes

179 quotes by 159 authors

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… — Eric Maisel
Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass… — Saint Basil
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration,… — Erasmus Darwin
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once… — Marcus Aurelius
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this… — Karl Marx
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… — Baltasar Gracian
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. — Mitch Daniels
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… — Tom Hanks
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… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. — William Law
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… — D. H. Lawrence
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another… — Robert Plant
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff
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… — Annie Dillard
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… — Italo Calvino
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. — John Steinbeck
Love cannot be measured by its duration... — Hanif Kureishi
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time… — John Steinbeck
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt… — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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