Famous quotes containing the words long and/or duration:
“I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
My absence doth neglect no great design
Which by my presence might have been concluded.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)