Duration Quotes

179 quotes by 159 authors

If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the… — Pablo Neruda
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;… — Roland Barthes
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. — Julio Cortazar
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny
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… — Immanuel Kant
It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and… — Heather Brewer
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… — Marcus Aurelius
You should sit,â€ Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. â€œI didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me… — Nalini Singh
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
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit. — John Eldredge
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I… — Aldous Huxley
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… — Hermann Hesse
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as… — Marcel Proust
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility.… — Leo Buscaglia
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… — Charles Darwin
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged â€” to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of… — Hermann Hesse
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it… — Philip Sington
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally. — Fernando Pessoa

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