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Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
— Rita Coolidge
The decision is not mine to make," Philip said. "I promised Meg to Miss Marianne for the duration of her visit. You will have to ask her.
— Julianne Donaldson
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
— Alfred Jarry
Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army.
— Louisa Young
Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.
— Debasish Mridha
How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond theminto the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Matter and spirit are of equal duration; both are self-existent, - they never began to exist.
— Terryl L. Givens
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
— Julio Cortazar
In 1338 Kingsai was visited by an earthquake of ten days' duration;
— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
— Hanif Kureishi
If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.
— Elizabeth Harrower
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.
— John Steinbeck
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
— Honore De Balzac
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 - in a dress.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.
— Friedrich Ruckert
The measure of life is not by its duration, but by the difference that you have made in this world.
— Debasish Mridha
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
— Emile M. Cioran
How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?
— Sreesha Divakaran
I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.
— Lily Donaldson
A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
— R. Kent Hughes
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
— Criss Jami
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
— William Law
The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.
— Sunday Adelaja
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.
— John Schlesinger
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.
— Thomas Hardy
I was the future and shall be the past - I am a timeless, everlasting Now, so short I have no end, so long I have no duration.
— Nanamoli Thera
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
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
— Russell M. Nelson
But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends.
— Jonathan Swift
There is nothing called a permanent love or a temporary love. Love is love. Love may be for a smaller duration or a longer duration.
— Girdhar Joshi
Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out
— Seyi Ayoola
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
— Samuel Johnson
It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
— Seneca The Younger
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
— Elizur Wright
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
— Radhanath Swami
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
— Seneca The Younger
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
— Terence McKenna
The measures of a life is not in its duration but in its donation.
— Debasish Mridha
The value of life is not in duration but in its donation.
— Debasish Mridha
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
— Tibor Fischer
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
— S. Jay Olshansky
In God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.
— Eugenie De Guerin
We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
— Ernest Cline
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
— Corrie Ten Boom
There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded.
— Debasish Mridha
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
— Benjamin Franklin
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
— Richard Holbrooke
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[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.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
— David Niven
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
— Tennessee Williams
(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.
— Vladimir Nabokov
It is not the duration but the donation for the humanity that determines the value of life.
— Debasish Mridha
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
— Antonin Artaud
Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.
— Debasish Mridha
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower. — Philip Freneau
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
— Abraham Lincoln
Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ]
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Love cannot be measured by its duration...
— Hanif Kureishi
The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance.
— Debasish Mridha
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
— Aldous Huxley
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
— Samuel Johnson
Love for shorter duration is going to be more intense and more fulfilling, and more memorable.
— Girdhar Joshi
It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.
— William S. Burroughs
Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection.
— Eric Greitens
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
We all are passengers to a train called life, the duration & destination to which is pre-planned.
— Nikhil Kushwaha
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
— Nicholas Culpeper
The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action.
— Debasish Mridha
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
— Mitch Daniels
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
— Barbara Kingsolver
