“Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”

“Power is always temporary.”

Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist

“There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.”

Alan Keyes (1950) American politician

“When you save someone's life. It's always temporary, y'know?”

Matthew Stover book Shatterpoint

“The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.”

Jason Fried software entrepreneur

“Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.”

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist