Duration Quotes - Page 2

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Love cannot be measured by its duration.

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

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.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

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 it to be.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

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

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

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.

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.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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

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 almost always leaves a scar.

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 for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.