Quotes About Temporary

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

But the memory of the old life that returned to my mind was the endless series of defeats, of flights, of dangers; to begin again meant perhaps only a temporary extension of that death agony, the return to a phase I thought had already ended.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

the soul's frail dwelling-house

The more you explain bad events as temporary, specific, and external, the more likely you are to persist even in the face of adversity.

One reason big feelings can be so uncomfortable for small children is that they don't view those emotions as temporary.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Violence never solves problems. It may cover them up temporarily because of the fear it is intended to inspire, but it is part of a cycle, not the end of a cycle.

At the time, I thought it temporary. Still, I was so pleased to

It's just a temporary thing.

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers in this world. —1 PETER 2:11 ICB

Like all happiness, it did not last long.

This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions, temporary in any case, a heroic achievement of human will and persistence at best. When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up.

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

This temporary happiness, isn't worth the full-time pain. Sorry for not giving the 2 week notice, but I'm done with your games. We're over!

Easy come, easy go.

The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

Life may be scaryBut it's only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment