113 Forever Quotes For Inspiration

Inspiration can often be found in the most timeless expressions of human thought and emotion. Words have the power to resonate deeply, capturing the essence of our most profound feelings and experiences. Whether you're seeking a motivational boost, a nugget of wisdom, or simply a comforting affirmation, the enduring strength of a well-crafted quote can be incredibly impactful. In this specially curated collection, we've gathered 113 of the top forever quotes to inspire, uplift, and enrich your daily life. Dive in and let these timeless words spark your own journey of inspiration and reflection.

1. “Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.” - Sarah Dessen

2. “Even though you're not by me side, Night, you will forever be my first man, my Zettai Kareshi” - Yuu Watase

3. “The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.” - Herb Caen

4. “Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want to laugh with you when you're happy and hold you when you're sad and--hell. I don't even know what all. This is uncharted territory for me, but I know that I Buzz Lightyear love you. You know--to infinity and beyond?” - Susan Andersen

5. “I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.” - Brian Andreas

6. “The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.” - Franz Kafka

7. “Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he askedMacy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.” - Sarah Dessen

8. “If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.(Malcolm Kavanaugh)” - Nora Roberts

9. “Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.” - Ellen Hopkins

10. “When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.” - Steve Maraboli

11. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” - Karl Lagerfeld

12. “I don't want to hide. I want to slow dance with you again. I want to dance with you forever.” - Sarah Black

13. “Tatsuya: What you have "right now" won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know.” - Ibuki Haneda (伊吹羽田)

14. “War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.” - Libba Bray

15. “The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.” - Craig Ferguson

16. “Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.” - Lauren Oliver

17. “If you really believed that you'd lost your soul, then when I found you in Volterra, you would have realized immediately what was happening, instead of thinking we were both dead together. But you didn't―you said 'Amazing. Carlisle was right,'" I reminded him, triumphant. "There's hope in you, after all."For once, Edward was speechless."So let's both just be hopeful, all right?" I suggested. "Not that it matters. If you stay, I don't need heaven."He got up slowly, and came to put his hand on either side of my face as he stared into my eyes. "Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered."That's all I'm asking for," I said, and stretched up on my toes so that I could press my lips to his.” - Stephenie Meyer

18. “Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To put it into your terms, it's a currency that's easily devalued. Pretty soon you're saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns into an apology. Then it's an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest: don't hate me; I love you. But mostly it just means--more. More, more--give me something more. A couple of years from now, when you're on your own completely, if you really fall in love, if it really comes to that--and I pity you if it does--you have to look right down into the black of her eyes, right down into the emptiness in there and feel everything, absolutely everything she needs and you have to be willing to drown in it, Kevin. You'd have to want to be crushed, buried alive. Because that's what real love feels like--choking. They used to bury some women in their wedding dresses, you know. I thought it was because all those husbands were too cheap to spring for another gown, but now it makes sense: love is your first foot in the grave. That's why the second most abused word is "forever".” - Peter Craig

19. “Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.” - Michael Poeltl

20. “This is eternity, Antanasia," he said, both warning and imploring. "Eternity.” - Beth Fantaskey

21. “I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever, not right now.I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.” - Jodi Picoult

22. “Love does not last forever, then?""He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.” - Mary Balogh

23. “The sadness will last forever.” - Vincent Van Gogh

24. “What If Following Her HeartMeans Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?” - Richelle Mead

25. “when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope” - Laurell K. Hamilton

26. “Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ?Master of Stupidity: They live with a same or different part of their consciousness.” - Toba Beta

27. “Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.” - Kipling Swehla

28. “Immortality doesn't fit with death,as mortal doesn't fit with eternity.” - Toba Beta

29. “Forever means losing count of years.” - Toba Beta

30. “I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory” - Sam Savage

31. “Because Days come and go but my feelings for you are forever, one last kiss before I go, dry your tears, it is time to let you go ” - Papa Roach

32. “I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.” - Charlotte Featherstone

33. “the truth about forever is that it is happening right now” - Sarah Dessen

34. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” - Euripides

35. “It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.” - Maggie Stiefvater

36. “She reaches up and pulls my face to her and kisses me, her soft lips on mine. I don't want her to stop kissing me. As long as she is, then everything is fine. Everything is right, I would stay in this room forever if I could. The world can pass by without me, without us. Just as long as we can stay here, together, in each other's arms.” - Pittacus Lore

37. “He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.” - Loretta Chase

38. “Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?” - Jodi Picoult

39. “Ellie, would you frolic in the land of forever with me?” - Rae Hachton

40. “Books exceed authors' lifespan.” - Toba Beta

41. “But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?” - Ann Voskamp

42. “Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?” - Stacey Jay

43. “Scent is the strongest tie to memory.” - Maggie Stiefvater

44. “Believe in me and you shall die, forever.” - Chuck Palahniuk

45. “I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.” - Connie Brockway

46. “It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.” - Kirstie Alley

47. “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” - Herbert Stein

48. “He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.” - Suzanne Collins

49. “There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.” - Nina LaCour

50. “You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye—and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren’t thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together. And, no doubt, how you wished you’d had more time. Even if you’d had centuries… When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch—when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had. No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given.” - J.R. Ward

51. “Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.” - Ann Brashares

52. “And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.” - Carmen DeSousa

53. “Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.” - Maggie Stiefvater

54. “This is where we go our seperate ways.Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes."I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to."The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it."I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come.His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.” - Alyson Noel

55. “I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.” - Rachel Gibson

56. “If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.” - Maggie Stiefvater

57. “I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.” - Daisy Goodwin

58. “Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the experiences I've had with them. They gave me life, becoming an integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever.” - J.D. Stroube

59. “If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.” - Elora Bishop

60. “How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?” - Miranda Kenneally

61. “Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.” - Chuck Palahniuk

62. “How long will you keep me?" I asked.You shrugged. "Forever, of course.” - Lucy Christopher

63. “It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” - John Green

64. “There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.” - Steve Maraboli

65. “Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.” - Maggie Stiefvater

66. “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.” - Dan Millman

67. “Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.” - Lisa Kleypas

68. “And you are the girl's bitch, forever.” - Alison Goodman

69. “Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".” - Maggie Stiefvater

70. “Sestrilla, hafelinaJue amourasestrillaAwou jue selavienaEn patre jueTranslation:Beloved one, little catI love you for all timeIn this timeAnd all others” - Christine Feehan

71. “You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.” - Peter S. Beagle

72. “The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.” - Sarah Dessen

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

74. “...I’m not going anywhere. Remember, I promised. I’m yours now, forever.” - Samantha Towle

75. “She leaned against him, listening to his strong heartbeat as they cuddled together.Maybe he didn’t say all the right things, and maybe he didn’t do it all in the right way, but he was hers, and she was his, and they’d figure it all out together. Because she knew now that both of them were in this for the long haul, and that he’d be there for her no matter what.And that’s what counted the most.” - Jaci Burton

76. “You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.” - Emma Forrest

77. “Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.” - Shannon Alder

78. “Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury later said, I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.” - Ray Bradbury

79. “Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.” - Steven Redhead

80. “Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever.” - Steven Redhead

81. “I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.” - K.A. Tucker

82. “... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.” - Markus Zusak

83. “Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.” - Amy Tan

84. “I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.” - J.K. Rowling

85. “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.” - Robert Browning

86. “I tucked the Camel coupon from his cigarette pack into my pocket. A souvenir of the moment where he said maybe. I would hold on to his maybe for as long as it would take, even forever.” - Kimberly Novosel

87. “...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.” - Deb Caletti

88. “Da.-Cole st. Clair” - Maggie Stiefvater

89. “I’ll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.” - Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

90. “I learned that love can end in one night, that great friends can become great strangers, that strangers can become best friends, that we never finish to know and understand someone completely, that the “never ever again” will happen again and that “forever” always ends, that the one that wants it can, will achieve it and get it, that the one that risks it never looses anything, that physique, figure and beauty attracts but personality makes one fall in love.” - Tommy Tran

91. “I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong” - Vicki M. Taylor

92. “Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.” - Justin Vernon

93. “But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.” - Ellen Hopkins

94. “Black as night and as beautiful as forever.” - Stephen King

95. “My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.” - Avery Williams

96. “If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!” - Jerry Spinelli

97. “It's an ember forever burning in my heart. It's a reminder Caleb will live forever.” - CJ Roberts

98. “For a thousand years,and then a thousand more…I will love you.” - Jamie McGuire

99. “You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?” - Tegan Quin

100. “... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.” - Paul Hoffman

101. “If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.” - Sarah Dessen

102. “...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.” - Paul Hoffman

103. “For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” - James Baldwin

104. “In my humble opinion, forever is a bitter brew." - Max; Before Ever After ♥” - Samantha Sotto

105. “Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable...for us, forever just won’t do.” - Steve Maraboli

106. “As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.” - Natalie Goldberg

107. “She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now.” - Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

108. “Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.” - Anthony Liccione

109. “What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.” - Dennis R. Miller

110. “I would live forever if I could, but not like this.” - Gary Young

111. “It was just a lie that seemed real.It was a promise that was never meant to be true.The forever that had a deadline.It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in aheartbreak café!” - Moffat Machingura

112. “When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!” - Louis Tomlinson

113. “sempre. she asked.Cracking a smile, he brushed his pointer finger softly across her lips. “Always and forever.” - JM Darhower