Lovers Quotes - Page 28

• Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dog, Dragons, Knives

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.

  Guillaume Musso

  Enemy, Needs, Sometimes

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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