We Are Lovers Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

Tarryn Fisher

#3. Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#4. Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live ... in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Anatole Broyard

#5. Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter.

Homer

#6. Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. He isn't the best, neither am I. But we are the best version of ourselves with each other. And that's pretty close to Perfection.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#8. What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#9. Let us choose one another as companions!
Let us sit at each other's feet!
Inwardly we have many harmonies - think not
That we are only what we see.

Elif Shafak

#10. There are two lost continents ... We are one: the lovers.

Tom Robbins

#11. 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

#12. Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns.

Stephen Colbert

#13. Friends
or lovers
are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Madeleine L'Engle

#14. Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

Dan Stevens

#15. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

Rae Hachton

#16. Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Jonathan Swift

#17. 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

#18. Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Andre Aciman

#19. We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Tana French

#20. You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we are apart

Munia Khan

#21. Once we were in love,
So I know it's true, the saying:
True love never ends
For as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more
Now that we are friends

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#22. 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

#23. The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Anne Carson

#24. 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

#25. Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Paul Theroux

#26. Rather than being lovers in order to breathe, we are queer in order to escape asphyxia.

Guy Hocquenghem

#27. 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

#28. We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

Carrie Preston

#29. There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.

Ann Fairbairn

#30. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one

Zack Love

#31. Jack said, 'The only friends we don't spare--who do not escape our scrutiny--are our lovers and those who become our enemies.

Robert Glick

#32. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

J.A. Redmerski

#33. When we are down there, if we are parted, come and find me again," said Keedra.

Philip Dodd

#34. History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
from Past Present and Future are One

Aberjhani

#35. We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

C.S. Lewis

#36. We are silent haters
communicating through
memories and tears
We are silent lovers
communicating through
poetry and lyrics

Shannon Lynette

#37. I think if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them

J.A. Redmerski

#38. ("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us.

Tim O'Brien

#39. Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can't we swallow the sweetness and can't you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.

Linda Hogan

#40. We star-crossed lovers from District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek the fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving.

Suzanne Collins

#41. I prefer my lovers with a dick."
We are both in luck, because I just so happen to have one of those growing in my pants as we speak.

Aly Martinez

#42. We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

Brigitte Bardot

#43. I stop and stand in front of him, motionless - we are former lovers turned strangers.

Kim Karr

#44. The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people
and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.

Catherynne M Valente

#45. For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

Stevie Nicks

#46. We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers.

Patri Friedman

#47. Until we part at death, you are tied to me by my soul.--Shinigami Lovers

Ryou Yuuki

#48. There is no man on this earth that has the right to tell you how beautiful you are, for no words we use has enough power to tell that truth. Your beauty can only be describe by the heavens above in a language none of us know.

Vincent Edwards

#49. 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

#50. We are all God's children.
But world-peace-dreamers,
world-peace-lovers
and world-peace-servers
are undoubtedly
God's choicest children.

Sri Chinmoy

#51. The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her.

Tana French

#52. We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving.
And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.

Suzanne Collins

#53. If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends ... and so much more.

Kasey Michaels

#54. Shame on our cold hearts! We are but poor lovers of our sweet Lord Jesus, not fit to be his servants, much less to be his brides, and yet he hath exalted us to be bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, married to him by a glorious marriage covenant. Herein is love!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#55. We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

Thucydides

#56. It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#57. Quiet Prayer:
As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face.

Brian Andreas

#58. There is no born lover,
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers.

Dejan Stojanovic

#59. Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him

Rob Shepherd

#60. Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.

Mackenzie Herbert

#61. We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.

Jean Houston

#62. We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Caryll Houselander

#63. A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#64. We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#65. Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

Graham Joyce

#66. This is a dance for all the lovers
Takin' a chance for one another
Finally it's our time now

These are the times that we'll remember
Breaking the city's heart together
Finally it's our time now, it's our time now

Plain White T's

#67. Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. - Arianne

George R R Martin

#68. We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare

#69. 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

#70. The dead" we say as if speaking
of "the people" who
gave up on making history
simply to get through
Something dense and null groan
without echo underground
and owl-voiced I cry Who
are these dead people these
lovers who if ever did
listen no longer answer
: We :

Adrienne Rich

#71. As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

Crystal Woods

#72. We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#73. Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Maggie Gallagher

#74. I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

Tan Redding

#75. Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.

Galway Kinnell

#76. Death and I are secret lovers. We take turns fucking each other every chance we get.

A.A. Dark

#77. This is who you are, I thought, and my eyes were wet with love for myself and my lovers and for the world. How wonderful and strange it is to be alive! How uneven we are, and how lucky, in our delirious specificity and holy broken forms.

Justin Taylor

#78. Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

Sigourney Weaver

#79. We're told that independent film lovers ... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black people in it - I've been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that's not true.

Ava DuVernay

#80. Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

Henry Alonso Myers

#81. We are the light that needs no lifting,
as long as our flames burn we are interwoven.
A whisper within the heart is sufficient,
to perpetuate the wave that we began together,
beyond the fabric of the time we yet rest upon

Tom Althouse

#82. I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me."
"You honor me," said the djinn, "and maybe you have wasted your wish, for it may well be that love would have happened anyway, since we are together, and sharing our life stories, as lovers do.

A.S. Byatt

#83. Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

Nicole Hollander

#84. I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions.

Rumi

#85. The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#86. We are destiny's lovers. If there is not time for us," he said as he took my hand, "then there will never be time for anyone.

Pamela DuMond

#87. We are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.

Allan Frewin Jones

#88. 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

#89. This is your life!!! The children/husbands/lovers are just one chapter. The stronger we (women) get the more loving we can be- to all.

Cynthia Basinet

#90. It's no time to be sweet - we are tender, flammable, so light, we are the orphaned ones of lovers.

Arlene Kim