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Quotes About Lovers

Bang bang was the sound of memory's pistol firing into our heads, for we could not forget love, we could not forget war, we could not forget lovers, we could not forget enemies, we could not forget home, and we could not forget Saigon.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
England,' 'La France,' 'Das Reich;' their words Are like the names of extinct birds Or peasant-women's quaint old charms For bringing lovers to their arms, Which would be only pretty save That they bring thousands to their grave.
~ W.H. Auden
All these were lovers and emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and any one may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting of short memorable sentences, which they severally uttered. And they met together and dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions, which are in all men's mouths—'Know thyself,' and 'Nothing too much.
~ Plato
To all those who face change without fear. Go forward. To the ever-transforming glory of the public library, without which we would all be diminished. No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments. We are all book lovers. And we all chase the Great Library of Alexandria, one book at a time.
~ Rachel Caine
It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's the anonymity of war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Music is a language lovers understand Melody and romance wander hand in hand Cupid never fails assisted by a band So if you have something sweet to tell her Say it with music
~ Irving Berlin
Who is this cautious unhoping young woman? Where is the hero who bore such batterings for love and stood up before witnesses to ask me to be a hero too? And I am a hero now. Can't you see? We can be an army of two. We can be Plato's perfect army: lovers, who will never behave dishonorably in each other's sight, and invincible. Let the world either kill us or grow accustomed to us; here we stand.
~ Unknown
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
~ Ivor Novello
Let the blessing of Saint Peter's Master be… upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
~ Izaak Walton
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
~ Leila Slimani
For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion .
~ John Barth
Their wet cold faces, her shapeless nose and his grotesque hooked nose like the caricature-mask of a Roman soldier, their large, contorted, abnormal mouths, made, it might seem, more for anguished curses against God than for the sweet usage of lovers, were now pressed savagely against each other and, as they kissed, queer sounds came from both their throats, that were answered by the groanings of the tree and by the raindrops as the wind shook it.
~ John Cowper Powys
The truth of our past haunts us, the memory of past lovers makes us feel all alone in our life. But never forget that we will always find someone who loves us more then we remember past lovers.
~ Unknown
Only enemies tell the truth, friends and lovers lie endlessly.
~ Unknown
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
~ Stephen King
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.
~ Caryll Houselander
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
~ Denis Diderot
I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.
~ Desiigner
My parents are both music lovers; they are not musicians.
~ Sigrid
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers' plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children's games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.
~ Don DeLillo
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers' plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children's games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot." Is this true? Why did I say it? What does it mean?
~ Don DeLillo
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
~ Jacques Barzun
He wanted to tell them of the stars. Of the lovers in their hellish graves.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea