Top 100 Lovers But Quotes
#1. She tried to recall quarrels she'd had with men. Young men: lovers. But none had been anything like this, provoked by something so innocent and trivial. None had been so one-sided. None had left her feeling so frightened and helpless. So alone.
Anonymous
#2. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.
C.S. Lewis
#3. I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#4. We weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do.
Haruki Murakami
#5. I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!
Lisa Edelstein
#6. I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
Marguerite De Navarre
#7. Some people think I'm completely uninterested. Dismissive. Apathetic ... ."
"Heh." His weight settled atop me. "I don't know how you were with your other lovers, but ... . People see what they want to see. Or completely miss things when they're too busy looking for flaws.
Santino Hassell
#8. I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.
Reeva Steenkamp
#9. Love the lovers but don't hate the haters because when you do ... they still win. Love your life!
Timothy Pina
#10. Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.
Cyril Connolly
#12. I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.
Madeline Hunter
#13. Some never spoke another word. Some never married. Some couldn't look at a woman again, even their own mothers and sisters. Some wanted to touch and hold lovers, but their arms could not embrace.
Daniel Black
#14. Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.
Teresa Of Avila
#15. Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.
It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#16. Even you Spent a lots of time to find your lovers but you doesn't know that he is close by you and ready to touching you.
Allulaby
#17. Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
C.S. Lewis
#18. She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates - you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And
Evangeline Anderson
#19. People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.
Sherry Turkle
#20. You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
John Irving
#21. If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
Simone De Beauvoir
#22. Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
Simone De Beauvoir
#23. He told her, I don't remember any other lover but you.
I don't believe you.
I don't. I know the facts of other lovers, but all the real, visceral memory, or any emotion has burned away. Those lovers happened to someone else, the man I was before I met you.
Thea Harrison
#24. The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately, what they heard or even what they knew. It is how they interpret the story that will make all the difference.
Tiphanie Yanique
#25. It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
Myrtle Reed
#26. Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?
Paul Negri
#27. The touch of your flesh
is tough to resist
Planets collide, collide
at the smack of your kiss
But you can kiss your brother
because we will not be lovers
The Waterboys
#28. When I died last, and, Dear, I die
As often as from thee I go
Though it be but an hour ago,
And lovers' hours be full eternity.
John Donne
#29. It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.
Emma Frances Dawson
#30. When I think about you with him, it guts me. I feel like you ripped open my chest and tore out my damn heart. Do you even realize that? I know I should want you to be happy, but I can't wish it for anyone else other than me. I belong to you, and that's never going to change.
Ashleigh Z.
#31. Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.
Rumi
#32. People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone
Ai Yazawa
#33. But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents.
Ted Dekker
#34. Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.
Andrew Schneider
#35. I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.
Nicole Richie
#36. They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years
Nicholas Sparks
#37. Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.
Nadege Richards
#38. To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the wonders of both Heaven and Earth. But she surpassed them all and, by her pleasing nature, stayed him.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. I'm not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#40. The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#41. Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.
Eoin Colfer
#42. You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
A.E. Housman
#43. People change. Feelings fade. Lovers drift. Friends leave. Friends become enemies. Lovers become strangers.
You'll be judged. but still Life Goes On.
Lovely Goyal
#45. He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.
Zadie Smith
#46. You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.
Carl White
#47. The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.
Rumi
#48. Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband's lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.
John Cheever
#49. Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.
Eric Clapton
#50. I was thinking of Cambridge, and then I got a bit homesick for a minute, 'cause I never been this far away from home before. But the I remember you're here, and now I'm not homesick no more.
J.L. Merrow
#51. I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.
Lisa Unger
#52. I might be able to walk away from sexy, dangerous shifters, but chocolate had me at its beck and call.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#53. When love is sweet, the sweetness means its light
And light may keep the truth, when love is pure.
But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.
Lovers in a fight are quite immature.'
From the poem 'A Note on Existentialist Love
Marieta Maglas
#54. Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
Albert Camus
#55. She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.
Jane Austen
#56. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
Kahlil Gibran
#57. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
Agatha Christie
#58. Distance may be the segregator but our thoughts and dreams are what keep us together.
Truth Devour
#59. Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
James Baldwin
#60. I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
Kacey Musgraves
#61. A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#62. But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.
Mark Greif
#63. But he had handled enough divorces to understand that in rough circumstances companions sometimes fared better than lovers. Rocco
Laurie Fabiano
#64. I never saw it coming; I never thought you'd leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.
Lorii Myers
#65. At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not unlike that which a certain toad had once cast upon her: for there is never anything but apparent paradox in the choices made by lovers.
Michael Moorcock
#66. My heart always knew, you're the dew, my dry soul would never adieu.. but I still don't know why I let you go and waited all my life just for you.
Syed Arshad
#67. A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.
Margrit Mondavi
#68. Many marriages falter, it seems to me, not because the couples are out of love, but because they have never been friends as much as lovers. They may love each other, in a vaporously romantic way, but they do not really like each other as individual personalities.
Sydney J. Harris
#69. Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy's old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.
John Cheever
#70. Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.
Sylvia Plath
#71. When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.
Jackie Kay
#72. Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#74. You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.
Amy Layne Litzelman
#75. Will you wear my ring so all the world knows yer mine?"
Beck wasn't asking for her hand in marriage, but it was so close he might as well be. Riley was deeply touched and she struggled to find the right words.
"Yes," she began. "I'd be proud to.
Jana Oliver
#76. She broke my heart over and over, day after day, but I love her.
Kelly Moran
#77. EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?
Khaled Hosseini
#78. Because I know if I sit down and start to write out how it feels ... . it all becomes too real ... the pain becomes too much. But that's the weird part because I feel so empty, like there no longer is a heart living where there used to be one, so why am I feeling pain?
Chriselle Ravadilla
#79. I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
M.J. Rose
#80. I maybe such a pain in the ass,
But in a good way.
I give you pleasure at the same time!
Arzum Uzun
#81. But the lovers are locked in, as only lovers can be.
Ian McEwan
#82. And thus I wonder about so many gay men I've met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong?
Paul Monette
#83. Her love is rare but she'll keep you wild.
Nikki Rowe
#84. The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
Rumi
#85. Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
Allen Ginsberg
#86. Androma was good at what she did. But so was Dex.
Besides, a prodigy could only outrun her master for so long.
Sasha Alsberg
#87. Lovers may never meet again, but the ways of enemies oft do intersect: This proves some corollary about gravity.
William T. Vollmann
#88. I was afraid and knew I had every right to be, but he had awakened a part of me that no longer cared.
Nenia Campbell
#89. The true lovers of humanity are those who put on the uniform with regret, fight like hell when they wear it, take it off without rejoicing, but hang it where it can be got at if necessary, and remember that they must still stand watch in civilian clothes over the trophies of victory.
Rupert Hughes
#90. Alana, you could never disappoint me," he shifts while still on top of me. "I may have had more lovers than you, and I may take my clothes off for countless women, but you are the only one who can strip me bare.
Marissa Carmel
#91. As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.
Aldous Huxley
#92. So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.
Suzanne Collins
#93. A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.
Robin Schone
#94. Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.
Salil Jha
#95. LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
Ambrose Bierce
#96. But I see how he watches the stars,
And he talks to people just because,
And gee, it would be nice to have a friend."
From "Fated" in BREATHE IN
Eileen Granfors
#97. Love is like the senses of the body.
Imagine you are blind, you can see an object using touch. You can feel around it and see it mentally.
Now imagine you can't feel, but can see. You can't feel what you see.
You may see love, but not feel love. When you feel love, you also so see it.
Blake McCormick
#98. I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others' pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us deaf to all but the lover.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#99. My mind may be in gutter, Abigail, but at least I'm looking at an angel!
Tom Conrad
#100. And when he kisses me
it tastes like
love
but
his love
tastes a lot like leaving.
Michelle K.
