Duration Quotes
179 quotes by 159 authors
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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
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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
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Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
— Julio Cortazar
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Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
— Roger Zelazny
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You should sit,†Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. “I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me…
— Nalini Singh
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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
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.
— John Eldredge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of…
— Hermann Hesse
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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
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
— Fernando Pessoa
Who Wrote These Duration Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 179 Duration Quotes, led by these top contributors: