Gilbert Parker Quotes

... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

This overpowering relief of love conquering any kind of difficulty and hardship in life - that love is forever, even with people that we lost in the physical world.

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

True love rules especially through memory.

Life has to end, love doesn't.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

When you love something, it never goes away.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

There's a sadness about love, a melancholy and a sadness about beauty. It's just part of the human experience of living on this planet.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.