Quotes about forever
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“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

Source: Why We Broke Up

“THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

Life, Men

“I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: The Coffin Club

Hope

“That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Love

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

God, Girl, Kiss, Wedding

“The half life of love is forever.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Variant: The half-life of love is forever.
Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Love, Life

“May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Truth, Courage, Light, Strong

“I love you, Michael Wagner.”

“Forever?” he asked.

“Forever,” I said.”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Source: Forever . . .

Love

“People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Life, People, Parting

“Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death?

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Death, Fear, Star, Boy

“Will you punish me forever?”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.”

Chris Wooding book Poison

Source: Poison

Way

“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

On Death and Dying (1969)

Death, Peace, Star, Light

“She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Way, Heart

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Thinking

“To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: Yours Until Dawn

Dreams, Night

“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“A computer does not smell… if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Books

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”

Cynthia Ozick (1928) American writer

Childhood

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”

Laura Kasischke (1961) American writer

Source: The Life Before Her Eyes

Life, Change

“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil-they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders

Love, Life, Faith, Justice

“Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.”

Stephen King book Just After Sunset

Source: Just After Sunset

Parting

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Dead

“You're floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.”

Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect

Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Happiness, Universe

“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Time, Heart

“If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.”

Darren Shan book Birth of a Killer

Source: Birth of a Killer

“The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

Cats

“I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Memory

“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Life, People, Thinking, Waiting

“Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Food, Moms, Fight

“She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Soul, Drink, Wine

“the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.

The Wine of Forever”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Men, Tear, Wine

“Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call?
A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters!
(Captain Perry and John groan)
John: That phrase is ruined forever.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion

“All I could think was that right there, in ever passing second, was the future winding itself own. Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Thinking, Future

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

“Sweetheart, if it’s not too much of an imposition, I would be forever beholden to you if you could kindly assume a reclining position so I can screw your brains out.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Forbidden Nights with a Vampire

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes (2007)

Heart, Sad, Depressing, Hurtful

“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Beauty

“Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced… that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him… and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

“Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)

Source: My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Life, Truth, Way

“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist

Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Death, Way, Freedom

“… she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Sadness

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Love, Star

“Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Learning, Reading

“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

Letter to Abigail Adams (17 July 1775)
1770s
Source: Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

Freedom, Change

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

Life, Way, Change

“I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Love, People

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Heart

“She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

People, Understanding, Passion

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Death, Music, Time

“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“You're a part of me… You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?

—D”

Jacqueline Woodson book After Tupac and D Foster

Source: After Tupac and D Foster

Heart, Parting

“Remember tonight… for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, Time, Cry

“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

World, Way, Feeling

“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Problem

“Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: Selected Poems

Love

“Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Phantom

Heart

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“… there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Love, Heart

“I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Way, Feeling, Thinking, Time

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

Shoe, Star, Dance

“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Women, Home

“How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Variant: I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday
Source: The Notebook

Heart Touching, Wedding

“Such Small Things:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Love, Dreams, Laughter, Time

“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Change

“The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Funny, Birthday

“It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever”

Rosamunde Pilcher book The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

Parting, Personality

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Graduation

“Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

Spring

“She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“… when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.

~ Fiona MacCarrick ~”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Deceive

Love, Learning

“You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: 3:16: The Numbers of Hope

Forgiveness, Change, Baby

“Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Love, Search, Mountain

“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”

Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes

Part 2, Ch. 27
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

Color

“To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Death, Feeling

“His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Life

“All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Lie, Grass

“In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Love, Death, Kiss, Dead

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, People

“Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Love, God, Cars, Dance

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Life

“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”

Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) American children's writer and illustrator

Variant: Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
Source: Tuck Everlasting: Scholastic Book Guides

Life, Death, Fear

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) American photographer

Aaron Sussman, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi
Sussman, Aaron. The Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Context: Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Love, Way, Feeling