Quotes about forever
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“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Chance

“This Forest eats itself and lives forever.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“Life is short, death is forever”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Life, Death

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Love, Feeling, Understanding

“… nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Star, Joy

“You're too young to decide to live forever.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

Source: The Woman Warrior

“Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me. Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Girl, Boy

“His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.”

John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

Happiness, Sadness

“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

“In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Feeling

“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.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)

Health, Beauty, Dreams, Sleep

“For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“What If Following Her Heart
Means Rose Could Lose Her
Best Friend Forever?”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Heart

“Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Feeling

“Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber—and if the bug thought,, right before it was frozen forever.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Color

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Reading, Heart, Tattoo

“White for light. White for love. White for forever.”

Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade

Source: Masquerade

Love, Light

“I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Parting

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

Time

“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever… and the other one scared me out of my mind.”

Frederik Pohl book Gateway

Source: Gateway

Love, Life, Chance

“We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

Love, Summer

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Pain, Sadness, Memory

“I'm an outsider by choice, she said, but I'm hoping that won't be my choice forever.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Trusting Soul

Hope

“The point wasn’t that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Angels Twice Descending

Love, People

“Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.”

Khushwant Singh Train to Pakistan

Source: Train to Pakistan

Life, Friendship, Spring, Flowers

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”

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

Memory, Past, Sad, Depressing

“Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Effort, Personality

“I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Understanding

“This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.”

Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist

Source: Winter's Bone

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, butlasts forever.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Books, Silence, Time

“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“You kidding? So many preservatives in these things, I'll live forever.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Beauty, Beauty

“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.”

Grace Lin book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Source: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

“Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Faith, Thinking

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Silence

“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Girl, Boy, Tear

“Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

Intelligence, Moms

“Love not often, but forever.”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Source: Holy Fools

Love

“Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.”

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Source: The Shadow Rising

Love, Smile, Thinking, Sun

“our bones
like stems into the sky
will forever cry
victory”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Victory, Cry

“For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.”

Bill Drummond (1953) Scottish musician, music industry figure, writer and artist

Source: $20,000

Tea

“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Way, Light, Time

“You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Carpe Corpus

Love

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Death, Tree

“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

Richard Ford book The Lay of the Land

Source: The Lay of the Land

People

“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Life, Truth

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

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

Death, Fear, Star, Boy

“I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Night

“Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Love, Way, Memory

“A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Problem, Universe

“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Understanding

“You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

World, Change

“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989)

Hope, Daughters, Hope

“Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist

Source: The Hearing Trumpet

“Things couldn't stay the same forever.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Source: Promethea, Vol. 5

Dance

“I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Dark of the Moon

Love

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”

Richard Matheson book I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

Death

“Memories are forever.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Memory

“I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his.

"How much?" He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely.

"Without limit. Beyond forever.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Love, Kiss

“For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.”

Susan Hill book The Woman in Black

Source: The Woman in Black

“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Love, World, Girl

“Awareness
There is a dark place.
A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words.
I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die.
But I can't.
The darkness and silence go on forever.
It is not a dream.
I don't dream.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Dreams, Silence, Cry

“The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever”

Sofia Coppola (1971) screenwriter and director from the United States

Source: Lost in Translation

“‎When she looked up at him, it was suddenly easy for her to imagine that her fears were pointless. 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, Fear, Imagination

“Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

Dependency

“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”

Anatole France book The Revolt of the Angels

Variant: For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
Source: The Revolt of the Angels (1914), Ch. XXI

Life

“The empty swing set reminds us of this--
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

Time

“A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Peace, Time, Joy

“I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise -- that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.”

Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)

1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976)
Variant: I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise -- that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.

People, Justice, Error, Learning

“If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape.
If only.”

Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 11

“The bull does not know you, nor the fig tree,
nor the horses, nor the ants in your own house.
The child and the afternoon do not know you
because you have died forever.

The shoulder of the stone does not know you
nor the black silk on which you are crumbling.
Your silent memory does not know you
because you have died forever.

The autumn will come with conches,
misty grapes and clustered hills,
but no one will look into your eyes
because you have died forever.

Because you have died for ever,
like all the dead of the earth,
like all the dead who are forgotten
in a heap of lifeless dogs.

Nobody knows you. No. But I sing of you.
For posterity I sing of your profile and grace.
Of the signal maturity of your understanding.
Of your appetite for death and the taste of its mouth.
Of the sadness of your once valiant gaiety.”

Federico García Lorca Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías

No te conoce el toro ni la higuera,
ni caballos ni hormigas de tu casa.
No te conoce el niño ni la tarde
porque te has muerto para siempre.No te conoce el lomo de la piedra,
ni el raso negro donde te destrozas.
No te conoce tu recuerdo mudo
porque te has muerto para siempre.El otoño vendrá con caracolas,
uva de niebla y montes agrupados,
pero nadie querrá mirar tus ojos
porque te has muerto para siempre.Porque te has muerto para siempre,
como todos los muertos de la Tierra,
como todos los muertos que se olvidan
en un montón de perros apagados.No te conoce nadie. No. Pero yo te canto.
Yo canto para luego tu perfil y tu gracia.
La madurez insigne de tu conocimiento.
Tu apetencia de muerte y el gusto de su boca.
La tristeza que tuvo tu valiente alegría.
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1935)