Lovers Quotes - Page 23

• Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Play, Hunters

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She says the same thing about hers.

  Jason Molina

  Mean, Being In Love, Broken

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• The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses
  are still truly adjusted to each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inward, Infancy, One With Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

  Russell Conwell

  Love Is, Earth, Plenty

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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• A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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

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• I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

  Sally Mann

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Stupidity, Strange

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

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• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

  Robertson Davies

  Lying, Book, Reality

  "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.

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• Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

  Rumi

  Stars, Blue, People

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1765). “Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover”, p.80

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• They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Eye

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• Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Money, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• I have had no true friends, only lovers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Love, True Friend, No True Friends

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• Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

  John Milton

  Jealous, Understanding, Hell

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, John GILLIES (D.D., Minister of the College Church, Glasgow.) (1793). “Milton's Paradise Lost illustrated with Texts of Scripture, by John Gillies ... Second edition, with additions. (The Life of Mr. John Milton [by Elijah Fenton].).”, p.144

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• Went up from my feet to my head,
  With little chills after it stealing-
  And my hands got as numb as the dead.
  A moment, and then it was over:
  The diamond blazed up in my eyes,
  And I saw in the face of my lover
  A questioning, strange surprise.
  Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers,
  That heavy with fragrance bloomed near,
  But I didn't feel natural for hours;
  It was odd now, wasn't it, dear?
  Write soon to your fortunate Clara
  Who has carried the prize away,
  And say you'll come on when I marry;
  I think it will happen in May.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Flower, Eye, Writing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Quarrels, Bad Relationship

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Bad Relationship, Two

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• 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

  Jealousy, Insecurity, Depth

  Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

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• For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

  Jessy Schram

  Friendship, Mother, Father

  "Jessy Schram Talks Falling Skies, Last Resort and Once Upon a Time". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. June 12, 2012.

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• So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Hair, White

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• The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Creative, Guessing

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• A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  First Love, Long, Cynical

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• If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Men, Rely Upon

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

  Germaine Greer

  Falling In Love, Sex, Men

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• That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Jenny Han (2010). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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