Lovers Quotes - Page 2

• Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

  Anatole France

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.36, Anatole France

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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Color, Opposites

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• Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Prayer, Long

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• It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Beautiful, Character

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

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

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• Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Death, Sea

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

  Plato

  Love, Wisdom, Plato

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• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

  Boethius

  Love, Valentines Day, Law

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• One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Wretched

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Folks, Know How

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A pair of star-crossed lovers.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Stars, Pairs

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) prologue

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• You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Relationship, Women

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• Though lovers be lost love shall not.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Opposites, Literature, Way

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

  Van Morrison

  Dark, Sides, Ends

  Song: Bright Side of the Road, Album: Into the Music

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• A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

  Maurice Sendak

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

  "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

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• We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

  Matthew Modine

  Husband, Father, Important

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• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Enemy, Scratches

  "Ballade of a Great Weariness" l. 8 (1926)

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• A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 05, 2014

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• Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

  Michael Jackson

  Forever, World, Outlets

  Twitter post from May 23, 2012

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• I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Book, Character, Paper

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• I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

  Piers Anthony

  May, Today, Chance

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