Explain quote no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form?

Answer 1

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. — Henry Ward Beecher Height, breadth, depth, haste, intensity, and ability to displace give structure to water thus defining a wave. Beecher’s metaphor suggests that, like a wave’s inevitable loss of form and magnitude, our emotions unavoidably subside. As a wave expires into tranquil waters, emotions naturally wane into a placid composure.