Duration Quotes

• The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Life, Age, Aging

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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Literature

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• Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing.

  Tracy Anderson

  Moving, Tears, Different

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• 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 her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Long, Favors, Pay

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Time

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.110

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• 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 hour of its duration.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Best Friend

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• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

  Seneca the Younger

  Power, Long, Injustice

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, He Man, Intensity

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• You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

  Myles Munroe

  Long, Important, Value Of Life

  "Myles Munroe's Ominous Quote on Dying Young". abcnews.go.com. November 10, 2014.

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religion, Eternal Life, Timelessness

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

  Myles Munroe

  Long, People, Important

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• Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

  Thomas Browne

  Time, Thinking, Long

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194

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• 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 timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• 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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cosmos, Answers, Becoming

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

  Isaac Newton

  Time, Mean, Science

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Thomas Paine (1794). “Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]”, p.73

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• 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 after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

  Tom Hanks

  War, Boys, Effort

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• It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

  Henri Bergson

  Science, Past, Survival

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.

  James Madison

  Regret, Government, Evil

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Faith, Love Is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• [Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.

  Bob Black

  People, Receiving, Degrees

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• The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

  Edmund Husserl

  Perception, Time Management, Management

  Edmund Husserl (2008). “Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

  Ken Wilber

  Time, Self, Forever

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Feelings, Intensity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

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• Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.

  Mooji

  Unique, Light, Rivers

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