Quotes about lover
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“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”

Variant: Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Source: The Gunslinger

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“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Variant: Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.”

Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: I’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay?

John Updike photo
Lev Grossman photo
Anaïs Nin photo
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“Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships”

Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer

Source: Ruskin Bond's Book Of Nature

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“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

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Dorothy Parker photo

“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: Enough Rope

“If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.”

Jill Ciment (1955) Canadian writer

Source: The Tattoo Artist

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Scott Snyder photo
A.E. Housman photo
Richelle Mead photo

“The queen's guards might have been the best of the best, but Dimitri… well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.”

Variant: ... but Dimitri... well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.
"Stay back," he ordered me. "They aren't laying a hand on you.
Source: Spirit Bound

Janet Fitch photo
William Goldman photo
Edna Ferber photo
Suzanne Collins photo

“The star-crossed lovers”

Source: The Hunger Games

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“I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Paulo Coelho photo
Billy Joel photo
John Keats photo
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Thomas Wolfe photo
Charles Simic photo
Percy Bysshe Shelley photo

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

The Moon, Act IV, l. 451
Variant: Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Source: Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

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Leonard Cohen photo
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“I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.”

Armistead Maupin (1944) American writer

Source: 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus

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“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

Variant: Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
Source: The Three Musketeers

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Baruch Spinoza photo
Victor Hugo photo
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“You attract what you need like a lover”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
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Scott Lynch photo
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Patti Smith photo

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”

Eleanor Hibbert (1906–1993) English novelist

Source: The Courts of Love

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Leo Tolstoy photo
Patrick O'Brian photo

“Death is my lover and he wants to move in.”

Source: Crave

Robert Jordan photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo
Candace Bushnell photo
Jeanette Winterson photo
Yann Martel photo

“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Context: Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

James Baldwin photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Francesca Lia Block photo
David Bowie photo
Michael Ondaatje photo
Tom Robbins photo
Suzanne Collins photo
David Levithan photo
Francois Truffaut photo
Robert Frost photo
Wendell Berry photo
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A.E. Housman photo

“All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

Source: More Poems

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Graham Greene photo

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

Variant: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Source: The End of the Affair

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Clive Barker photo
Luke Davies photo
Elizabeth Bishop photo
Sherwood Anderson photo
James Joyce photo
Brian Andreas photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo