Top 100 The Lover Quotes
#1. The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
Baha'u'llah
#2. The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
Quentin Crisp
#3. The Lover's Maxim
'If you can'r be handsome, be rich. If you can't be roich, be strong. If you can't be strong, be witty'
'What if you can'r be witty?'
'Learn the guitar.
Henry H. Neff
#4. It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
J.M. Barrie
#7. Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover.
Vatsyayana
#8. Love ... requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours.
Steven Heighton
#10. Who am I really? The answer to that question is found in the answer to another. What is God's heart toward me, or, how do I affect him? If God is the Pursuer, the Ageless Romancer, the Lover, then there has to be a Beloved, one who is the Pursued. This is our role in the story.
John Eldredge
#11. Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#12. It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy
#15. Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.
Salman Rushdie
#16. Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.
Russell Conwell
#17. The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
Joseph Addison
#18. Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
Mason Cooley
#19. Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or-
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact deluges a hundred shores.
E. M. Forster
#21. Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
John Dufresne
#22. A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. O stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight into her pure features come from the pure constellations? - from "The Third Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke Fine
Philip Pullman
#24. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
Berthold Auerbach
#25. In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.
Crystal Mary Lindsey
#26. Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
Bernie Siegel
#27. The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
Rabindranath Tagore
#28. An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
Charles Eisenstein
#29. Love is timeless ...
Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
Khalil Gibran
#30. It was love, careless of its dignity." Ah, love indeed, when it tries to make itself known, does not seek what is becoming to the dignity of the lover, but what will serve best to declare itself to the object loved.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#31. We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#32. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.
John Alfred Langford
#33. The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
Michel Foucault
#34. I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don't want to accept anything less than that. I don't see why I should.
Jane March
#35. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. Just don't lean forward too much. It's meant for people to sit back, hold onto each other and relax. The lover's ride.
Alexia Purdy
#37. Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. One look at love
and you may see
it weaves a web
over mystery,
all ravelled threads
can rend apart
for hope has a place in the lover's heart.
Hope has a place in a lover's heart.
Enya
#39. Fever supports the sick man, and love the lover.
Victor Hugo
#40. But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr
#41. It nods and curtseys and recovers
When the wind blows above,
The nettle on the graves of lovers
That hanged themselves for love.
The nettle nods, the wind blows over,
The man, he does not move,
The lover of the grave, the lover
That hanged himself for love.
A.E. Housman
#42. 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
#43. To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
Walter Benjamin
#44. He knows that kind of love. It is what he feels for Gallicina. It is the world reformed, made new, each time the lover sees the beloved's face. It is the miracle which makes the cosmos dance, which keeps the planets in their courses, which fuels the fire of the stars. It is salvation.
Susan Palwick
#45. The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
Theodor Reik
#46. The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#47. Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.
William Wordsworth
#49. Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,
and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing ... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#52. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou
#54. Happy the lover who exercises, then
Goes home to sleep all day with a handsome boy.
Theognis
#55. Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
Damon Galgut
#56. The Lover of our souls, the One who has pursued us down through space and time, who gave his own life to rescue us from the Kingdom of Darkness, has made it clear: He does not want to lose us. He longs for us to be with him forever.
John Eldredge
#57. The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
Anne Carson
#58. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
Naomi Wolf
#60. Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears.
Donald McCaig
#61. Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.
Radhanath Swami
#63. Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
Margaret Mead
#64. There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
Sri Chinmoy
#65. The day Love was illumined,
Lovers learned from You how to burn, Beloved.
The flame was set by the Friend
to give the moth a gate to enter.
Love is a gift from the Beloved to the Lover.
Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
#66. The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
Walter Scott
#67. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
Carson McCullers
#68. The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
Roland Barthes
#69. The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover.
Kenneth Rexroth
#70. I know that I have been a fool, a madman, to believe that the snow could have been animated, that the marble could grow warm; but what would you expect? The lover easily believes in love, nor has my journey been entirely in vain, since I behold you now.
Alexandre Dumas
#71. It was the downfall of love, Lamia thought wistfully, that it inspired the lover to toss away any shred of caution just to obtain the pure, desperate pleasure of talking about the beloved.
Shamim Sarif
#72. But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places.
Erica Jong
#73. Lucas had no doubt Helen could erase his love for her, but he also knew he'd only fall in love with her again the next he laid eyes on her. There was no "moving on" for him. No matter what else Lucas did in his life, his love for Helen would always define him. He was the Lover.
Josephine Angelini
#74. If the beloved is everywhere,
the lover is a veil,
but when living itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear.
Rumi
#75. As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
Plato
#76. The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be.
Rumi
#77. It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#78. The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
Albert Einstein
#79. I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#80. [The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
Marlene Dietrich
#81. I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
Kahlil Gibran
#82. It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
Richard Siken
#84. There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.
Frederick Buechner
#85. The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
William James
#86. I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken
#87. First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.
Hadewijch
#88. The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.
Tom Robbins
#90. When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
G.K. Chesterton
#91. Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
Rumi
#92. Consider, too, how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
Plato
#93. Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
Agnes Repplier
#94. There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father."
Michael Caine
#96. Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.
Bryant McGill
#97. There are two ways of spreading love by becoming the lover or by become the beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable.
Alain De Botton
#99. A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas A Kempis
#100. So the last night the girl and her lover would be together, the girl would bring the lamp and set it so it threw the lover's shadow to the wall!!!!!
Chuck Palahniuk
