Love Quote by Jimi Hendrix

Hendrix frames existence like a flashbulb and love like a door swinging shut: you barely register the light before its gone, and the most charged human bond gets reduced to two simple syllables on either end. The line works because it refuses the usual rock-poet myth that love is a grand, sustaining force. Instead, its a brutally edited highlight reel: arrival, departure, nothing in between that can be safely held.

The emotional trick is the grammar of speed. "Quicker then the blink of an eye" (misspelling and all) reads like someone speaking faster than they can process what theyre saying, which is exactly the point: time outpaces meaning. Then he compresses romance into "hello, goodbye", a phrase that sounds almost childish until you realize how adult the wound is. Hello is exposure; goodbye is consequence. Love, in this view, isnt a stable noun but a brief event that leaves a long echo.

Context sharpens it. Hendrix came up in a 60s culture of intensified sensation: fame, touring, substances, war on the nightly news, a generation told the world could end any minute. His own life was famously accelerated, a virtuoso career crammed into a handful of years. So the line isnt abstract philosophy; its lived reportage from someone watching relationships and identity get shredded by velocity. He turns transience into a hook, making impermanence singable, which is its own kind of defiance.