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Quotes About Transient

Anger is often a big problem for people who grew up in families where the overt expression of anger was an everyday occurrence. They have too much opportunity to practice anger and not enough sense of the other possibilities. Rage becomes, for them, the habitual response of the mind to unpleasant situations. ... When people begin to see that anger, like any other mind energy, is just a transient phenomenon and therefore workable, they are very relieved [p. 83].
~ Sylvia Boorstein
Something maternal awakened, perhaps, by the physical contact with such lovely young babies? And tonight was a good night, thus I feel correspondingly tender. There will be other bad nights, but remembering the versatile quicksilver shifting of children's moods, I smile with equanimity and do not cherish grudges, as most of us adults do, letting them fester like a cancer. But I let my emotions run on the same forgiving and transient track.
~ Sylvia Plath
What happens between us Happens in darkness, vanishes Easy and often as each breath.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.
~ T.R. Pearson
The wealth of sorcerous knowledge I can import to the world, compared to your own transient beauty and skill, should recompense.
~ Tanith Lee
Cyrion in stone was to be a fleeting concept, not a permanent condition.
~ Tanith Lee
Esa luz es tan usted, algo que viene y va, que se mueve todo el tiempo
~ Julio Cortazar
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~ Francesco Petrarca
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Je suis une âme en peine, une femme de trente ans, nerveuse, malheureuse, qui n'a pas les dérivatifs des hommes: passades, voyages, affaire, vanité, ambition.
~ Henri De Montherlant
The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and health of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.
~ Henry Miller
Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.
~ Graham Swift
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
~ Zane Grey
A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.
~ Chuck Schuldiner
People say that Americans trends are transient, but the one activity we never seem to tire of is being outraged. Boy, do we love it!
~ Jim Norton
Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.
~ Debasish Mridha
Remember, pain and misery are transient and ephemeral but love has the healing power, which is eternal.
~ Debasish Mridha
Success is not a destination, it is a journey. Failure is not permanent, it is transient. So continue your journey with intermittent roadblocks.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective
~ Farley Maglaya
Lots of madmen have had their say But only for a day.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Lo que ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca.
~ Milan Kundera
You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
~ Erin Morgenstern