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Generally true but listen to this little story...
A while back my core i5 2500k (the one I'm using now) was running at 90+ degrees continuously and peaking at over 100 degrees C, this was because the standard thermal paste failed but that CPU is still OK to this day.
THE FIX: As I said, with a decent CPU cooler fan, thermal paste applied correctly and with the CPU firmly and squarely seated on the heat sink, you can get it running at about 1 degree above ambient room temp.
Unlike Pentium class or older, these new gen CPU's have a critical temp trip that's meant to shut down the CPU before any serious damage is done...
I think the main problems with over temp these days would be system instability, possible loss of data and would affect the overall lifetime of the CPU.
So short term incidents like the one you're experiencing would generally be nothing to worry about.
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