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Quotes About Lovers

The day Love was illumined, Lovers learned from You how to burn, Beloved. The flame was set by the Friend to give the moth a gate to enter. Love is a gift from the Beloved to the Lover.
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
~ Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.
~ Walter Lippmann
Not Anyone Who Says Not anyone who says, "I'm going to be careful and smart in matters of love," who says, "I'm going to choose slowly," but only those lovers who didn't choose at all but were, as it were, chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable— only those know what I'm talking about in this talking about love.
~ Mary Oliver
Love is reckless and carefree; small, trifling minds seek profit, but true lovers lavish everything on love and never expect benefits in return.
~ Maryam Mafi
Back in Pittsburgh, if someone had infiltrated the library with fifty squirrels, that person would have been hailed as a hero. But Ellingham was full of library lovers, and there was the feeling in the air that this was, perhaps, a bridge too far. You could be naked, you could scream and hang out on the roof, but you do not mess with the place with the books.
~ Maureen Johnson
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money—and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
~ Ayn Rand
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
~ Philip James Bailey
Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
~ Claudia Christian
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
~ John Dryden
Subt copaci, f?r? de a rosti cuvânt, el o strânse la pieptul s?u; bra?ele li se împletir? în jurul trupurilor ?i pân? în zori, ca ?i cum ar fi fost cusu?i cu a?e tari, nu-?i desf?cur? strânsoarea. În pofida regelui ?i a str?jerilor, iubi?ii se bucurar? de dragostea lor.
~ Joseph Bédier
Heroes, lovers and believers don´t extinguish: they are rediscovered in every age, and in this sense myth always emerges. The situation in which we find ourselves resembles an interlude in which the curtain has fallen whilst a disconcerting mutation of the workers and accessories is taking place.
~ Ernst Junger
For we [B:033139] call 'world' not only this fabric which God made, heaven and earth . . . but the inhabitants of the world are also called 'the world.' . . . Especially all lovers of the world are called the world."35
~ Hannah Arendt
Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.
~ Rumi
Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.
~ Jalal Talabani
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love
~ Rumi
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
~ Rumi
Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
~ Wendell Berry
Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.
~ William Shakespeare
They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.
~ Rumi
Late October Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets of roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys and turn to black for comfort. Only lovers see the fall a signal end to endings a gruffish gesture alerting those who will not be alarmed that we begin to stop in order to begin again.
~ Maya Angelou
But that's what happened, Freeman, who had often been in love, told himself. Until you were lovers you were strangers.
~ Bernard Malamud