Lovers Quotes - Page 26

• We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Mind, Endeavour

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

  Sylvia Plath

  Europe, Gone, Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  God, Sports, Christian

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• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.

  Carolyn Cooke

  Country, Beach, Brother

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• The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

  Starhawk

  Falling In Love, Inspirational Love, Stars

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

  Stendhal

  Husband, Romantic Love

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

  Edna O'Brien

  Lasts, Back And Forth, Remarks

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• Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.

  John McGahern

  Book, Editors, Long

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• Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

  Robert Hunter

  Circles, Darkness, No Fear

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• Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Men, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Home, Visionaries, Lines

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Art, Military, War

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• The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Lying, Moving, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

  Jean Toomer

  School, Men, Creative

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• Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

  Adam Gopnik

  Magic, Mind, Mazes

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, 'hate in love,' for the men women share their lives with-husbands, lovers, friends, fathers, brothers, sons, coworkers.

  Judith Levine

  Brother, Husband, Father

  Judith Levine (1993). “My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender”, Anchor Books

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• Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial service, it is not a call to martyrdom. In many cases of domestic violence, a therapeutic separation is necessary to gain safety and direct attention to the gravity of the need for change.

  Rob Jackson

  Two, People, Safety

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• In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Civilization, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

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• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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• It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

  John Hill Burton

  Book, May, Impossible

  John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood

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• Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Forget, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3195, Delphi Classics

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• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Library

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

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• Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

  George Dyer

  Book, Library, Literature

  George Dyer (1814). “History of the University and colleges of Cambridge: including notices relating to the founders and eminent men”, p.6

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