Transient Feelings Quotes

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.

Love wears off too quickly.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

Love doesn't last.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.