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Quotes About Lovers

Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,And make two lovers happy.
~ Alexander Pope
I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.
~ Roger Rees
I mean, life is kind of like your own movie. You collect your characters to play your friends or acquaintances, your lovers. You're the casting director of your own life.
~ Julia Fox
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
~ David Sedaris
I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.
~ Kellie Pickler
The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall.
~ Simon Rattle
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.
~ Richard Russo
There are stories about winter ghosts found tangles like lice in their lovers' hair.
~ Kelly Link
But love is blind, and lovers cannot seeThe pretty follies that themselves commit.
~ William Shakespeare
Journeys end in lovers meeting,Every wise man's son doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
~ William Shakespeare
If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are:Unstaid and skittish in all motions elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is belov'd.
~ William Shakespeare
People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
city's anthem, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," was written in 1954 by two gay lovers who were pining for "the city by the bay" after moving to Brooklyn Heights.
~ David Talbot
The road to utopia is paved with the corpses of freedom lovers
~ Dean Cavanagh
Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
~ Jean Genet
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Blake Lost his temper. But they didn't do anything to you, did they? He inquired savagely. When they heard your Southern accent and your Southern name, they put you in a cell to think over your poor taste in lovers, patted you on the head, and let you go. You loved this man, Tony, or at least you led us to believe you did. The honorable thing for you to do is hear what he has to say.
~ Ellen Kushner
Tillworkers, thieves and housewives, all enshrined in sleep, unable to look round; night vagrants, prisoners on dream-bail, children without parents, free-trading, changing, disembodied, blind dreamers of every kind; even corpses, creeping disconsolate with tiny mouths, not knowing, still in tears, still in their own small separate atmospheres, rubbing the mould from their wet hands and feet and lovers in mid-flight all sank like a feather falls, not quite in full possession of their weight.
~ Alice Oswald
Vinne sighs; she has a deep distrust of marriage, which in her observation has an almost irresistable tendency to turn friends and lovers into relatives, if not into foes.
~ Alison Lurie
I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world.
~ Haim Saban
Lovers inside and horses ignoring the lovers. And the creek nearby. The willows. That was the scene. I forget the sky. The sky, let's say, was green and dotted with silly clouds that looked like dimes. Then
~ Richard Hugo
My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.
~ Robert Frost