Lovers Quotes

• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

  Jacques Lacan

  Giving, Doe, Matter

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• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Hair, Imagination

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• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  Maya Angelou

  Loving Someone, Age, Beloved

  "16 Ways Maya Angelou Taught Us How To Love" by Taryn Hillin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• 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

  Phones, Cold, Close Friends

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• If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

  Doris Day

  Funny Love, Live Life, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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• Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Smell, Needs

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146

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• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Life, Sex

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.371, Open Road Media

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• Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

  Axl Rose

  Sometimes, One Time, Has Beens

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• What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Tire, Self Love

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• The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

  Daina Chaviano

  Love, Kissing, First Kiss

  Daina Chaviano (2008). “The Island of Eternal Love”, p.172, Penguin

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• If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

  Cate Blanchett

  Birthday, Soulmate, Brother

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• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  Iris Murdoch

  Women, Home, Two

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• Lovers alone wear sunlight.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Life, Sunlight

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romance

  Essays "Love" (1841)

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• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

  Jean Racine

  Love, Latin, Renewal

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• Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

  Nalini Singh

  Loyalty, Love Is, Beloved

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• Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Fool

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

  Marya Mannes

  Women, Seduction, Articulating

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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