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Quotations on Lovers 34 Quotes Found The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. 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. Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot. There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract. Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. 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. Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. |
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