Quotes about forever
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“Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.
“We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”
“When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.”
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
Source: Wild Man Creek
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
“… Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.”
Source: The Lonely Polygamist
“But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.”
The End.
Source: Now We Are Six (1927)
Context: When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
“Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.”
Source: Testimony
“The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness”
Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)
Context: A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Source: The Twilight Before Christmas
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove
“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Variant: It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
Source: 1Q84
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.”
Source: Magic Breaks
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will…”
Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 392.
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)
Variant: Accept loss forever
“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“Ah, but she was a pastel wearer. She was forever dead to Sabine.”
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 75-76
Source: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
Source: A Wallflower Christmas