Great 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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• Where there is great love there are always miracles.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.

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

  Marya Mannes

  Women, Seduction, Lovers

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

  John Piper

  Evil, Suffering, World

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• People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example. Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic.

  Judith Orloff

  People, Great Love, Healthy

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

  Natalie

  Falling In Love, Moving, Writing

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• I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Boys, Alaska, Avid

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• Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ” “Oh, please.” “Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ” “I don’t think so.” “Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ” “I’m out of here.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Lovers, Saying Thank You

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Great Love, Lovers, Realizing

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

  Mary Webb

  People, Great Love, Silence

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• The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country!

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Country, Giving Up

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• I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Past, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
  Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones;
  Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss,
  The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Lying, Kissing, Great Love

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

  Garfield Sobers

  Games, Great Love, Followers

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• It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

  Mark Hart

  Animal, Great Love, Ironic

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.15, Franciscan Media

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• I'm a great lover of human beings.

  Warren Mundine

  Great Love, Lovers, Humans

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic.

  Judith Orloff

  People, Great Love, Healthy

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

  Ross Kemp

  Home, Coal Miners, Great Love

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• I like to shop. I don't always buy things when I shop, but I think it's fun to go out and look at the worlds of colors. I love to roam through supermarkets. I am a great lover of household products. I particularly like the packaging of cereal boxes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Thinking, Cereal

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• Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Sacrifice, Great Love, Lovers

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to "Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was not "In the men's room, Julie.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Art, Humor

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• .... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

  Anne Fortier

  Men, Alive, Lovers

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.81, Ballantine Books

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• True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

  Albert Camus

  Self Love, Debauchery, Lovers

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.103, Vintage

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• It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Reading, Great Love

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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