I will love You forever," swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. I will love You at 4:15 pm next Tuesday: is that still as easy?
—W. H. Auden
When do I stop? When I'm twenty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tells you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings
When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them.
—Laurell K. Hamilton in Incubus Dreams
Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they've given us.
—Emery Allen
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 in Can You Keep a Secret?
When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.
—Jim Geoghan in Light Sensitive
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
—Byron Katie
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
—Euripides
It's a moment I'll remember forever, because it belongs to me.
— Jessica Sorensen in The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
Can you imagine being forced to stay young forever, watching everyone you know die? How pointless would life seem if you saw that?
—Avery Williams in The Impossibility of Tomorrow
What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?
—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places
I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.
—Kristin Hannah in The Nightingale
I'll love you forever. Even when I shouldn't.
—Colleen Hoover in Confess
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
—George Bernard Shaw