Lovers Quotes

Welcome to our collection of timeless expressions of love encapsulated in lovers’ quotes. Love, being one of the most profound and cherished emotions known to humanity, has inspired poets, writers, artists, and lovers throughout the ages to put into words its intricate beauty and depth. Whether you’re seeking inspiration to convey your affection to a significant other, looking to reflect on the essence of love, or simply indulging in the warmth that love’s words can bring, you’ve arrived at the right place.

Within these pages, you’ll find an array of lovers’ quotes that span across cultures, eras, and perspectives, each offering a unique glimpse into the myriad facets of love. From the tender whispers of affection to the passionate declarations of devotion, these quotes capture the essence of what it means to love and to be loved. Whether you’re navigating the early stages of a blossoming romance or celebrating decades of companionship, these words serve as reminders of the profound connections that bind us together in the tapestry of love’s embrace. Embrace these quotes as tokens of endearment, allowing them to stir your heart and kindle the flames of affection within your soul.

Now, without further ado, delve into the treasury of lovers’ quotes below. Let these words inspire you to express your love in unique ways whether by penning them in a heartfelt letter, adorning them on a canvas, or sharing them with your beloved in moments of intimacy. For in the symphony of love’s melodies, these quotes serve as timeless refrains, echoing the eternal dance of hearts entwined in affection and devotion.

The anger of lovers renews their love. Terence

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? Jacques Lacan

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de la Bruyere

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Elizabeth Bowen

Some people love money, and some people love other things. I love music, and we are all lovers. Ilaiyaraaja

In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, ‘I have just lost the love of my life.’ Judith Butler

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. Christopher Hitchens

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? John Donne

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape. Orson Bean

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. Ivor Novello

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Alexander Chase

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. Tony Snow

Arsenal fans are real lovers of the game. They don’t miss anything in the stadium and are there for the team and the individual players. I have to admit I love banners like ‘We don’t need Batman, we’ve got Robin’ and stuff like that. Robin Van Persie

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of ’em. Evan Dando

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. Ovid

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley

You’re going to have haters and you’re going to have lovers. Nicole Polizzi

Sita and Ram were two strong individuals, and their love for each other is an example for lovers across the globe. Ashish Sharma

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. Andy Gibb

Eventually you love people – friends or lovers – because of their flaws. Karen Allen

I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it. Eve Babitz

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. Rumi

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. M. J. Rose

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Rumi

If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, ‘The Golden Lovers are my team,’ I’m good with that. Kenny Omega

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Sydney J. Harris

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. Florence King

I’m more interested in interpersonal relationships – between lovers families, siblings. That’s why I write about how we treat each other. Terry McMillan

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia. Mohsin Hamid

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. Leonard Cohen

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. Lewis Mumford

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime. Betty White

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. Lord Byron

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Thucydides

A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers. Ari Aster

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. Denis Diderot

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? Katharine Anthony

Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I’ve tried to do in ‘The Lovers.’ Amitava Kumar

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. Soren Kierkegaard

I have gone out with younger men, and they’re great fun; they’ve got enthusiasm. Stamina! But I think older men are much better lovers. Jerry Hall

The pleasure in lovers’ gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows. A. A. Gill

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. Lord Byron

Christians should not be the ones dividing over race in a racially charged environment. We are the peacemakers and the lovers of all men. We don’t seek vengeance. We forgive seventy times seven. John MacArthur

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender. Nathan Myhrvold

It’s impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers. Dave Navarro

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. Marc Chagall

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters. Eden Ahbez

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. Giovanni Boccaccio

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius

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

We’re told that independent film lovers… folks that are used to watching art house films, won’t come out and see a film with black people in it – I’ve been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that’s not true. Ava DuVernay

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. Marilyn Monroe

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. Helen Rowland

My mom, my dad, my two brothers – we’re all animal lovers. I think we love animals more than most people. Beth Ostrosky Stern

Film lovers are sick people. Francois Truffaut

I had a lovers quarrel with the world. Robert Frost

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. Sextus Propertius

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. Terence

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. Helen Rowland

Lovers should also have their days off. Natalie Clifford Barney

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. Mae West

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. Piers Anthony

I’m definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves. Connie Nielsen

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. Josef Skvorecky

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today’s 3D movies. Ridley Scott

For someone who doesn’t even like love stories, I’ve played an awful lot of lovers. Shah Rukh Khan

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. Honore de Balzac

There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath. Plato

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time. Axl Rose

I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA. Kellie Pickler

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act. Michael Dirda

Even in the deepest love relationship – when lovers say ‘I love you’ to each other – we don’t really know what we’re saying, because language isn’t equal to the complexity of human emotions. Duane Michals

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind. John Burroughs

I’ve always loved the ’40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers’ misunderstandings. Pearl Cleage

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes

‘Under the Poppy’ is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who’ve been parted by jealousy – and a secret betrayal by Istvan’s sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar. Kathe Koja

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. Rumi

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of ‘Wired’ magazine. Then things began to change. In the early ’80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy. Sherry Turkle

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. Oscar Hammerstein II

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa. Alice Walton

Though lovers be lost, love shall not. Dylan Thomas

I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album ‘Ya Nass.’ He was writing the script for ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’ Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic. Yasmine Hamdan

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else’s Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude. Justine Musk

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. Boz Scaggs

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me. Maya Angelou

Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back. Juan Gabriel

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. Saint Basil

I come from a family of greedy food lovers. Sophie Dahl

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance. Minna Antrim

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. Cyril Connolly

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate. Cate Blanchett

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. Nicolas Chamfort

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. Maurice Blanchot

If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. Doris Day

Anton Usov

I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.

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