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Quotes About Lovers

Our reputation as a nation of animal lovers means we can make a strong case for dogs as pets rather than as food.
~ Alok Sharma
I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. The calling of arms, I have followed from boyhood. I have never sought another. I have known lovers, sired offspring, competed in games, and committed outrages when drunk. I have vanquished empires, yoked continents, been crowned as an immortal before gods and men. But always I have been a soldier.
~ Steven Pressfield
These characters might not be interesting to anyone else but they're absolutely fascinating to us. They are us. Meaner, smarter, sexier versions of ourselves. It's fun to be with them because they're wrestling with the same issue that has its hooks into us. They're our soul mates, our lovers, our best friends. Even the villains. Especially the villains.
~ Steven Pressfield
y hablaban de intenciones y proyectos, convencidos, como sólo pueden estarlo los amantes nuevos, de que decir lo que uno quiere es lo mismo que decir quién es.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
hablaban de intenciones y proyectos, convencidos, como sólo pueden estarlo los amantes nuevos, de que decir lo que uno quiere es lo mismo que decir quién es.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Sea of Glass I looked and saw a sea roofed over with rainbows, In the midst of each two lovers met and departed; Then the sky was full of faces with gold glories behind them
~ Ezra Pound
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
~ Billy Joel
They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria...
~ Billy Joel
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
~ blake william v
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~ Boethius
We are able to become lovers of God because He already accepts us. We may think we know ourselves, but when we do not accept ourselves, we only prove how little we understand. What a tragedy! The truth is that the God of the universe loves us deeply. We are covered in His blood. That is what allows us to know and love Him. When we understand this fully, we will walk in holiness and be altogether healed.
~ Heidi Baker
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
~ John Edgar Wideman
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
~ Albert Camus
The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.
~ e. e. cummings
it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.
~ Mary Webb
This hall, where once the lovers of a bygone time paced and paused and turned one about another in forgotten measures to the sound of forgotten music, this hall was carpeted with lime-white sticks.
~ Mervyn Peake
Sometimes even lovers of fiction can be satisfied only by the truth. I
~ Michael Chabon
At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not unlike that which a certain toad had once cast upon her: for there is never anything but apparent paradox in the choices made by lovers.
~ Michael Moorcock
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.
~ Charles Ghigna
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.
~ John Ford
If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
~ John Lyly
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
~ Publilius Syrus