Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.
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.
Love cannot be measured by its duration.
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
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.
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast. . . [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.
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.
I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.