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Quotes About Temporary

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
~ Ambrose Bierce
it is the fate of hope to end in disappointment, as it is the fate of light to end in darkness and life in death. They are still worth something while they last.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Whatever you're facing, it is under your feet. It is not permanent. It's temporary. The power that is for you is greater than any power that comes against you. Keep the right perspective. You and God are a majority. You are armed and dangerous. The problem may have formed, but it is not going to prosper.
~ Joel Osteen
There are no sweeter words than this: nothing lasts forever.
~ Joey Comeau
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything transitory is but an image.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All things transient are but a parable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
~ Beyonce Knowles
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
~ James Howell
Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.
~ J. C. Ryle
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
~ Plato
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
~ Bob Schieffer
One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time and so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary.
~ Tehching Hsieh
However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once you have arrived. At the point of total realization, you must abandon Buddhism. The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo to be used until emptiness is understood.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.
~ E. Lockhart
It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
~ E. Lockhart
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
~ Edie Brickell
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for the moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
~ Edmund Burke
Our days on the earth are as a shadow.
~ Anonymous
What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
~ Anonymous
The fashion of this world passeth away.
~ Anonymous
No blessing lasts forever.
~ Plautus