Lovers Quotes - Page 13

• If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Want, Kind, Mask

  Song: I'm Your Man, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Realizing, Enough

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Long, Doe, God Is Love

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lightning

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• All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Flower, Sleep, Dark

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Triggers, Protest

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Widow's Web”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Next, Evening

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• Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

  Jean Rhys

  Children, Liars, Believe

  Jean Rhys (1981). “Quartet”

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• Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

  Nora Roberts

  Eight, One Day, Abnormal

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• You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

  Sarah Dessen

  Freak, Fighter, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.118, Penguin

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• She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.

  Janet Fitch

  Notebook, Writing, Night

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

  Laini Taylor

  Moon, Sky, Two

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• It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

  Emma Forrest

  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

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• How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?

  Isaac Marion

  Running, Blood, Chins

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

  Rumi

  Humility, Kissing, Night

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• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Children, Acceptance

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

  David Levithan

  Love You, Mean, Sleep

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Suffering, Shantaram, Precious Gifts

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.343, Macmillan

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• And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.

  Alan Lightman

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Memories

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.46, Vintage

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• I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. 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

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

  James Lee Burke

  Art, Love You, Writing

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• Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

  John Keats

  Dream, Loneliness, Eye

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

  James Salter

  Satanic, Firsts, Domain

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Death, Drains

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• No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love Is, Men, Blood

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.107, Duncan Baird Publishers

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