Noun
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives. François de La Rochefoucauld
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged - to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. Hermann Hesse
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
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation. Karl Marx
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. Steven Pressfield
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. John Steinbeck