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Quotes About Lover

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?
~ A. Manette Ansay
Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.
~ Alain de Botton
the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are granted that the comforting thought that we will not feel anything after death. No such comfort for the lover, who knows that the end of the relationship will not necessarily be the end of love, and almost certainly no the end of life.
~ Alain de Botton
the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are granted the comforting thought that we will not feel anything after death. No such comfort for the lover, who knows that the end of the relationship will not necessarily be the end of love, and almost certainly not the end of life.
~ Alain de Botton
one cannot blame a lover for loving or not loving, for it is a matter beyond their choice and hence responsibility – though what makes rejection in love harder to bear than donkeys who can never sing is that one did once see the lover loving.
~ Alain de Botton
being jilted by a lover is a perfect introduction to the mechanisms of emotional dependency.
~ Alain de Botton
I thought, these are the evening routines which will soon be mine, the tug of an unknown suburb, or a bar, or a lover.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
Oh, for God's sweet sake, couldn't you stand not learning your lesson? Because the lesson we learn is always by giving death and a sword to our lover.
~ Djuna Barnes
L'amore diventa il sedimento del cuore, del tutto analogo ai "reperti" di una tomba. Come in questa si può tracciare il posto preso dal corpo, dalle vesti, dagli utensili necessari all'altra sua vita, così nel cuore dell'amante si ritrova, come un'ombra indelebile, l'impronta di ciò che ama.
~ Djuna Barnes
I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.
~ Dolly Parton
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
~ Matthew Modine
The edition was full of fresh detail about the North London Cellar Murder and the escalating search for two suspects, a doctor and his lover.
~ Erik Larson
Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.
~ Anita Brookner
I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.
~ Murray Bartlett
And were an epitaph to be my storyI'd have a short one ready for my own.I would have written of me on my stone:I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
~ Robert Frost
A man at my age would make a poor lover," he advised a minister in London who had suggested that approach. "Alas, my scepter governs no more.
~ Robert K. Massie
Posso não ter suficientes qualidades para ser vossa rainha, senhor, mas tenho demasiadas para ser apenas vossa amante.
~ Robin Maxwell
Reverberation makes reception into an intelligible din, and the lover into a monstrous receiver, reduced to an enormous auditive organ--as if listening itself were to become a state of utterance; in me, it is the ear which speaks
~ Roland Barthes
A man who wants the truth is never answered save in strong, highly colored images, which nonetheless turn ambiguous, indecisive, once he tries to transform them into signs, as in any manticism, the consulting lover must make his own truth
~ Roland Barthes
What wounds me are the forms of the relations, its images; or rather, what others call form I experience as force. The image--as the example for the excessive--*is the thing itself*. The lover is thus an artist; and his world is in fact a world reversed, since in it each image is its own end (nothing beyond the image).
~ Roland Barthes
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
~ Albert Einstein
As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.
~ Aldous Huxley
The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.
~ Aleister Crowley
The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men.
~ Aleister Crowley