More Than Lovers Quotes

#1. The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#2. Okay. Not gay. Not lovers, they both just appear to like donuts more than your average bear.

Jandy Nelson

#3. Our goal, as lovers of God and students of His word, is to embrace the truth of the whole counsel of God recognizing that the truth is always more glorious than error.

David Barnett

#4. 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

#5. Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

#6. Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Nicolas Chamfort

#7. 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

#8. Your soul needs a Lover more than your floor needs carpet.

Brian Gordon

#9. The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs.

Walter Scott

#10. To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.

Cassandra Clare

#11. We weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do.

Haruki Murakami

#12. So if you choose me, then you have declared me more special to you than anyone else, because only one man can have that honor.

Zack Love

#13. Everything you do.. defies any dream I've ever dreamed. You're so much more perfect to me than I ever knew how to wish for. ~Tara Mae~

Lucian Bane

#14. It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#15. Friends and lovers were more dangerous than muggers.

Lou Harper

#16. I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.

Jon Foreman

#17. Absence is more,
thorny on the soul,
than however dulcet,
presence can be.
Apparently,
I have missed you,
more than,
I have ever loved you.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#18. There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Edith Hamilton

#19. A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.

Karen Davison

#20. I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

Connie Nielsen

#21. I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

Lord Byron

#22. Are you scared of me now?" She wanted the truth.
"More than ever." He had lowered his guard, putting himself at her mercy, because running away had only served to make him understand that he could never run away from who he was.

Llarjme

#23. But sing, when you must, of great lovers:
their fame has a long way to go before it's really immortal.
Those you almost envied, the unrequited, whom you found
more loving than the gratified, the content -
begin again and again the praise you can never fully express.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

#25. It is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

Mary Webb

#26. Can you guess what I'm doing?"
"Cutting my heart out."
"You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I - what could be more just than that?

William Goldman

#27. They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

T.F. Hodge

#29. We used to spend hours talking. We never got tired of talking, never raun out of topics - novels, the world, scenery, language. Our conversations were more open and intimate than ane lovers'.

Haruki Murakami

#30. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Paul Hoffman

#31. Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

Robert Farrar Capon

#32. All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

William Shakespeare

#33. (He remembered resting against her afterward, listening to the beat of her heart, taking her breath into his lungs, and thinking that he was the luckiest man in the world, that you couldn't connect with a human being any more perfectly than that. And sure enough, he'd been right.)

Beatriz Williams

#34. What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

Virginia Woolf

#35. Having love is more important than having a lover

Amir Sulaiman

#36. We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are.

Louise Dickinson Rich

#37. Make love to me," she whispered. "If you make love to me then it is two of us. There is just one of him when he takes my blood, but we are two." "We are two and more than two," he whispered in her ear, and then he lifted her and carried her to the bed.

Louise Murphy

#38. My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#39. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

#40. When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

Jean De La Bruyere

#41. Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

Richard M. Nixon

#42. The night seems more temporary than the day, especially to lovers, and it also seems more uncertain. In this way it sums up our lives, which are uncertain and temporary. We forget about that in the day. In the day we go on for ever.

Jeanette Winterson

#43. What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!

William Shakespeare

#44. Tell me if the lovers are losers ... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

Carl Sandburg

#45. For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it.

Hannah Crafts

#46. Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.

John Irving

#47. Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.

Vince Aletti

#48. I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.

Kelly Moran

#49. What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Arthur Symons

#50. Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

Honore De Balzac

#51. I love you. More than I ever thought it was possible to love someone. Siamese twin lovers, identical wombs, whatever the hell you called it. All I want in life is to drive out of this horrible, soul-destroying state with you someday.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#52. More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

Catharine Arnold

#53. I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week

Elizabeth Taylor

#54. To be considerate of others
Is for the way of the wise
There's more fighters than lovers
Leaving us with blackened eyes

Justin Bienvenue

#55. Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Albert Camus

#56. It' like he has the ability to take on some of my pain. I feel so much better around him. Stronger. And he is willing to take my pain. He wants to bear it with me. I can see it shining in his eyes. I'm more than a duty to him. I'm more than his literal dream girl. I'm so much more.

Cynthia Hand

#57. How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall.

Martin Amis

#58. Maybe we needed to break a little, so we could put ourselves back together more beautifully than before.

Leah Raeder

#59. During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

Jerry Falwell

#60. And only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn't an answer.

Michael Marshall Smith

#61. No people find each other more absurd than lovers

C.S. Lewis

#62. Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

John Webster

#63. Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

Friedrich Nietzsche