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"When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever."
"Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence."
"There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises"
"O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky."
"Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever."
"One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever."
"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
"Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?"
"Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?"
"If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm."
"I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever."
"I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever."
"No storm lasts forever no matter what it is. Nature builds calmness within its storms. That's true in our own lives as well. When you reach the zenith of where you are going in your life, or in a relationship; the only place you can go is down or up. That's the nature of this universe; a cyclical thing. The seasons, the moon; everything has a cycle to it."
"Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made."
"A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."
"The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without."
"Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns."
"The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted."
"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever."
"I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever."
