34 Quotes About Duration

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

Interestingly, the nature of the Russian language itself – its use of perfective and imperfective aspect – reflects a very Bergsonian duality between objective and subjective time, or between time considered spatially and time as duration

Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out

(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

Be Creative, consume time, don't let the time consumes you..

Sometimes you begin something believing it will soon be over but discover it carries on under its own steam. Perhaps there's some mysterious untouchable law that dictates the length of everything.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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.

duration of exercise didn't seem to matter -- what seemed to matter most was whether people were exercising or not.