Temporary Life Quotes

...your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life...that's all the more reason to cherish it... ~ Isabella Koldras, Sense Of Perspective.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. ~ Daniel M. Gilbert

Temporary can mean six seconds or six years, and you never know, because temporary never feels temporary. ~ J. Andrew Schrecker

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary. ~ Wallace Stegner

Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy. ~ Frederick Lenz

My ride's here."
"Temporary ride."
Blue exploded, hurling her yogurt container into the recycling bin. "What is it, Orla? Jealousy? Or what? You just don't want me to like them as well as I do because ... you're trying to save me from being hurt? You know what else is temporary? Life. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Life is a beautiful collection of temporary experiences. Treasure your unique collection, and enjoy sharing it with others. ~ Matthew Kahn

I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time. ~ Fred Durst

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom. ~ Jack Kornfield

I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people ... [a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped, ~ Addy Stevens

All life is temporary
Why worry about anything that's only temporary ~ Gautama Buddha

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever. ~ Rick Warren

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment. ~ Rick Warren

You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away ~ Al-Hasan Al-Basri

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary. ~ Bob Schieffer

The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary. ~ Joey Green

Everything living on earth is temporary ~ Sunday Adelaja

There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Shakespeare will not allow Falstaff to die upon stage. We see and hear the deaths of Hamlet, Cleopatra, Antony, Othello, and Lear. Iago is led away to die silently under torture. Macbeth dies offstage but he goes down fighting. Falstaff dies singing the Twenty-third Psalm, smiling upon his fingertips, playing with flowers, and crying aloud to God three or four times. That sounds more like pain than prayer.
We do not want Sir John Falstaff to die. And of course he does not. He is life itself. ~ Harold Bloom

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. ~ Phyllis Diller

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life. ~ Claudia Rankine

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. ~ J.G. Holland

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him ... It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward ... Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time ... the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life. ~ Leo Tolstoy

All my life, all I've ever wanted was someone who wanted me. ~ J.S. Scott

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress. ~ Barbara De Angelis

Yet love was not something to be thrown aside lightly. It came so rarely, only a few times in a mortal life. Some- times it came but once ~ Cassandra Clare

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices. ~ Richard Bach

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share. ~ Tyler Perry

It's all about having fun and feeling good! ~ Marissa Campbell

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire. ~ Swami Vivekananda

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake. ~ Harry S. Truman

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better. ~ Kevin McCarthy

The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of this shaft, and he would go mad there drinking blood and eating human flesh, without ever being able to die. Up there, against the sky, there were good angels with ropes, and bad angels with grenades and rifles, and a big old man with a white beard who waved his arms but could not save him. ~ Italo Calvino

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. ~ John Steinbeck

It occurred to him that perhaps all his life he had only been hearing echoes of himself, and that his morality, on which he had once prided himself, was merely a refusal to permit other people into his life. ~ Brian W. Aldiss

What the hell? Futility has its purposes in life.
Talon. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me. ~ Alice Walker

After listening to so called experts it's not until you reach the end of the road that you begin to realise you've been taken down the wrong road. ~ Lou Silluzio

Life is complicated, without any sort of road map. We are bound to have disappointments and setbacks, and with each one we make the choice to reinvent ourselves as a stronger version of who we are. ~ Beatriz Williams

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners. ~ Ayn Rand

Sewn into the mind numbing descent and reckless nature of their destination, their lives spiraled on the downwards, murky slope that would rob them of everything even breath and life itself. ~ Jill Thrussell

All life is emptiness. Fill it with endless love, bliss, and kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won. ~ Dion Fortune

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely. ~ Barbara Windsor

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together. ~ John Eldredge

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire. ~ Ramakrishna

Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present. ~ Rob Martin

Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all. ~ Anonymous

A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well. ~ Robert C. Solomon