Henry Van Dyke Quotes

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Will you wait for me forever?

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.