Quotation Explorer - 'Lover'

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick or the side dick. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A true lover is like a flower. - Debasish Mridha
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. - Stephen Fry
One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place. - Vironika Tugaleva
Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it. - Janosch
I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
I am a great lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover. - Debasish Mridha
Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love! Love everything, love every event, love every moment and become a great lover. Love liberates the soul of the beloved lover. - Debasish Mridha
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 vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins
A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Broken hearts don't need medical treatment, they need a lover to mend them. - Dixie Waters
Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address. - Matt Groening
Oh my lover, oh my friend forever,if I am not with you for any reason,You will be in my heart every moment,every day, every month and season. - Debasish Mridha
Music can change our feelings, but a Lover or Friend can change all in us. - Jan Jansen
The only thing that can be said with an absolute certainty by seeing the behaviour of a vast majority of the people on the Earth is that an invisible Almighty is a big lover of watching the comedy activity. - Anuj Somany
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. - Martha Beck
My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost. - Dolly Parton
There are two ways of spreading love by becoming the lover or by become the beloved. - Debasish Mridha
Don't ruin a relationship, by giving it a name.A potential lover. A lover of the present and An ace of the past.These months, years and ages, might just forget the memory And remember the terms you used to file them in a draft. - Shillpi S Banerrji
Life is magical for a lover. - Debasish Mridha
If every lover was treated like they matter everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. - E.M. Forster
Porn mainly exists to satisfy the physical needs of men. Unfortunately many young men use porn to get educated about sex. But porn is not romance, lovemaking and about an emotional connection with their girlfriend, wife, or lover. - Dr. Warren Shepell
I am a lover of words.If your words don't play with me,nothing else in you will. - Wordions
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. - Haruki Murakami
Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading. - Edith Wharton
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. - Debasish Mridha
Ambling Indian nuggets of wisdom A lover of books can never be lonely! - Aina Rao
A lover of money is seldom a lover of people. - Matshona Dhliwayo
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author! - Judith Brocklehurst
When you know that someone is playing love games with you and still you are there then it means either you are a true lover or a true loser. - Jasmine Kiyani
A true lover can never hate or hurt another. - Debasish Mridha
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. - George Santayana
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wingsEre he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover - John Suckling
Someone who loves you, will act as sibling rather than a lover. - Olivie Boyke
True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheating on you; and the fact that you do doesn’t necessarily mean that they aren’t. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no perfect lover or perfect love, only longing for love and be beloved. - Debasish Mridha
Saying goodbye to a lover is like giving them the last wine drop in a glass about to break. - Farid F. Ibrahim
To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of prostitution. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe
Be a lover, nother else will matter. - Debasish Mridha
A feminist is a woman lover not a man hater - Srividya Srinivasan
My lover asks me:What is the difference between me and the sky?The difference, my love,Is that when you laugh,I forget about the sky - Nizar Qabbani
LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise , then Loved one must be the inspiration! - Madan Mohan Mahapatra
Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge. - Jalaluddin Rumi
In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus. - Crystal Mary Lindsey
I have fallen in love with the worldAnd I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all. - Rod McKuen
A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out - Michael Ondaatje
A lover becomes a light when he or she enlightens world of someone. - Debasish Mridha
A true lover never wants anything but gives with all his heart. - Debasish Mridha
When you became the love, everyone around you becomes your lover. - Debasish Mridha
A husband is what's left of the lover once the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland
Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' until they fall for a man that likes them back; but isn’t willing to leave his lover for them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. - Honoré de Balzac
Gone are the summer daysand my mind along with them.No longer will I indulgein hopes of getting you back.It is hope that makes these chains heavierand autumnal nights longer.I will merely serve as a memory to you:the lover that recited love poems.I must go nowand I urge you not to look back. - Kamand Kojouri
Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother - Vivek Thangaswamy
When you love, lover is loving you. - Debasish Mridha
I am great lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape. - Darnell Lamont Walker
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. - Marilyn Vos Savant
When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart. - Debasish Mridha
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. - Zarina Bibi
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters. - Woody Allen
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. - Abraham Lincoln
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins
You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am a lover born to love each part and parcel of the universe with my deep intense emotions. I love to connect with the world and each connection enriches my existence as it blends in my identity. - Harshada Pathare
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages. - Nizar Qabbani
In the soul of a lover, it is always spring where flowers of ecstasy are always blooming. Music of love is always playing. - Debasish Mridha
Man is neither an angel nor a demon. Man is what his lover loves. - Lara Biyuts
Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover. - Richelle E. Goodrich
A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we’d all be born in pairs; as couples. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love everyone; trust everyone. You might get hurt, but don’t fear because a lover has no fear. - Debasish Mridha
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. - Thomas Aquinas
You are the love, the lover, and the beloved. - Debasish Mridha
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. - George Santayana
Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.) - Charles de Leusse
When your lover is your best friend…then you know you’re one of the few and the fortunate. - Toni Sorenson
..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more. - Sarah MacLean
There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers. - Dejan Stojanovic
Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover. - Debasish Mridha
Love is not getting high on fantasies of romance, the perfect lover, absolute happiness and sexual ecstasy. Love is based on a two way communication and respect, and that only exists between equals. - Anselma Dell'Olio
He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. - G.K. Chesterton
Love begins when two souls meet together. A soul attracted by another soul. They feel like bind by each other. It’s a powerful addiction. It’s truly said, first love is last love. But it does not said anywhere to stop love if you betrayed by your lover. - Kusum Manjeshri
yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares... - Hiroko Sakai
i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back. - Anthony Castillo
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
Life is an endless story of lover and beloved. - Debasish Mridha
I don't care about having a lover on valentines day because all that matters to me is having a loving family for a lifetime - Akash B Chandran
deep inside the eyes of a true lover lies the heart of a true lover. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love is neither a sadist nor a masochist, but a woman seeking the approval of her lover. - Billy S VanOrsdol
To dream of love & wake up beside your lover is divinity itself - Faye Hall
who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you had spent together?only............a book lover. - Nadun Lokuliyanage
When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother. - Miya Yamanouchi
I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies. - Agatha Christie
A tomboy is a bisexual girl’s dream lover. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. - Jennifer Hillman
A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Never had she let herself go in this way with another body, and never had another body let itself go with her in this way. Her lover could play with her belly, but he had never lived in there; he could touch her breast, but he never drunk from it. - Milan Kundera
I am fanatic book lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. - Plato
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant. - George Gordon Byron
You claim to love God, and yet you disobey GodThis is a bizarre way of reasoningSurely, the lover, if his love is true,Is most obedient to the one he loves. - Poet
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. - Matt Groening
When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind. - Dixie Waters
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely. - Richard Linklater
Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover. - David Rovics
Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. - Kamand Kojouri
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. - Barbara De Angelis
A true lover never fails, a failure never can love. - Debasish Mridha
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland
When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.) - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain. - Yasmin Mogahed
We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion. - Dean Koontz
You have to be a great lover to be a beloved. - Debasish Mridha
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) - William Shakespeare
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. - Woody Allen
Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much. - Glad Munaiseche
Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed... - Shan O' Connor
I'm convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. - Justin Steckbauer
A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
If your love is real, it will one day reunite you with your estranged lover despite any circumstances. - Anamika Mishra
Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement. - Terry Pratchett
Well, you only need the light when it's burning low. Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. Only know your lover when you let her go. Only know you've been high when you're feeling low, only hate the road when you're missing home. Only know your lover when you let her go. - Passenger
The wrong lover will always make your love feel inadequate. - Jasmine Sandozz
And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth. - Keira D. Skye
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