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“Bittersweet creatures : So what is art, that it can enhance social abilities and transform the self? First of all, art is something that lasts and can spread to others. So although one can imagine a lover whispering an improvised poem into her lover’s ear, for the most part a poem will travel in time and space, and last beyond the moment of its conception.”
Keith Oatley (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't wanna know your name You're just my lover Just wanna spend the night Walking beside you on the water You look like my lover But you're words are cold You say words like him But thinking has made you grow old.”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old.”
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For winter’s rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Christ is Joy and Sweetness to a broken heart. Christ is a Lover of poor sinners, and such a Lover that He gave Himself for us. Now if this is true, and it is true, then are we never justified by our own righteousness.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) said by 1754 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
“In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover, And thinks the air is fire.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me For me... Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me.”
Sam Cooke (1931–1964) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cupid (1961)
“She's anything but typical; She's so unpredictable. Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad. She's as real as real can be And she's every fantasy. Lord she's every lover that I've ever had. And she's every lover that I've never had.”
Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, one of the most empowering outcomes of my year of climbing has been the new narrative I can tell about myself. I am no longer “Adrianne: scholar, book lover, pianist, and Wikipedian”. I am now “Adrianne: scholar, book lover, pianist, Wikipedian, and rock climber”.”
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wadewitz, Adrianne. (August 12, 2013). "What I learned as the worst student in the class". HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. — reprinted and cited in: "How Adrianne Wadewitz learn…
“It would of course be a grave injustice to Mr. Roosevelt to say that he is a militarist in the sense that Mussolini is a militarist. Mussolini is a lover of war. Mr. Roosevelt is not. But he is a lover of the instruments of war. There was a time when he favored universal military training-the corrosive curse of Europe.”
John Thomas Flynn (1882–1964) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The War Boom Begins,” Harper's Magazine (July 1937)
“A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.”
Ana Castillo (born 1953) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)
“But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move; the dust upon the paper eye and the burst stomach like a cave.For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death, who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.”
Keith Douglas (1920–1944) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vergissmeinnicht, 1943", in Collected Poems (1951), p. 34
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
Coleman Barks (1937–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Anglo-Saxon has four great loves. Love of liberty, love of home, love of women, and love of life. He’ll wade through blood for these. When we make up our minds to not take substitutes for them, we’ll get them.”
Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the Lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings; and for ever sings he— 'I love my Love, and my Love loves me!'”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Answer to a Child's Question", l. 7 (1802)
“The nobler our loves, the nobler our character. To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Three to get married (1951), p. 11
“All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The music I love to play is Rock 'N Roll. I love to rock like a wild animal. I love to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to whip it good on a horse's ass. I love to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I love to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.”
Wesley Willis (1963–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the love, all the love, All the love we should have given. All the love, all the love, All the love you could have given. All the love...”
“Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales. They said that Love would die when Hope was gone. And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; At last she sought out Memory, and they trod The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope, And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lover's Tale (1879), line 815
“Son, you're probably too young to look for wisdom in anyone's words but your own, but I'll tell you this: love is the enemy... Yes. The poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry. When asked what love eats: Friendship. It eats friendship.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is not about concepts; love is about action. The only way to master love is to practice love. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love.”
Miguel Ángel Ruiz (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the end of the day, happiness is derived from love — love for others and others’ love for you. When I say “love” I do not mean simply romantic love, though that is obviously one of the greatest wellsprings of true happiness. I mean the love one feels from friends, and the love for places and things that brings people together for shared purpose.”
Jonah Goldberg (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love Titanic because the love in the movie was pure, real, passionate and unconditional... the way the love story culminated in catastrophe was phenomenal. I love DDLJ and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai for being so over the top and yet so believable for us youngsters... I love Black for being such a sublime love story between and a teacher and his student. It was a love much beyond the ordinary.”
Rani Mukerji (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The early days of esto no tiene nombre were the happiest time in my life. I had a vision, I had hope, and I was not alone. There was a lot of love going around then — sexual love, spiritual love, friendship love, literature love, publishing love. Perfect love.”
Tatiana de la tierra (1961–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (hey) Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (I love me) Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else Anytime, day or nightGonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (hey) Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (I love me) Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else Anytime that I like (I love me)”
Hailee Steinfeld (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ang parang bottom line dito love should not hurt. Love does not hurt. If it’s hurting you, it’s not love. Di ba? Love is supposed to heal you, love is supposed to comfort you, love is supposed to give you peace, love is supposed to give you security..”
Toni Gonzaga (born 1984) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Toni Gonzaga Statement Over Jelai's Heartbreak Touches Many Hearts". PhilNews. 10 January 2022.
“I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. … In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had only loved your flesh And careless damned your soul to Hell, I might have laughed and loved afresh, And loved as lightly and as well, And little more to tell.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song" in The Best Poems of 1923 (1924) edited by Thomas Moult
“You'll be loved you'll be loved Like you never have known The memories of me Will seem more like bad dreams Just a series of blurs Like I never occurred Someday you will be loved”
Ben Gibbard (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were three sisters, three little sisters, And each one was only in her teens, And one loved a soldier, and one loved a sailor, And one loved a man from the marines.”
Vic Mizzy (1916–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was really interested in being a model when I was a little girl. I loved all the pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. I loved watching old movies -- I was really into Bettie Page, she was a big role model to me. I've always looked up to models like Elaine Irwin and Stephanie Seymour. I've always loved modeling.”
Tera Patrick (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(A) writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I asked myself, 'what do you really want to do', I enjoyed teaching Sunday school classes, I always loved research, I loved being in the library, I loved finding out, and I told myself, look, if this is what you want to do, if you have just one chance again in life to get it right, what would you do? So I told myself, I want to do research and I want to be in academia”
Atinuke Olusola Adebanji wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t know which came first, but they came very separately, if that makes sense. I’ve always loved basketball. I loved watching games with my family. My dad is a personal trainer, and so it was like, play sports, do sports, soak in sports, and so I’ve always loved that.”
Malika Andrews (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) said by 1790 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Alicia, with Miguel] "I do what I can to be faithful to Christ's admonition to love God and to love my neighbour. Nothing else matters." "To love God," he repeated. "How can you love a phantom?" "Because he is not a phantom to me. I perceive him in the scent of the flowers and the sun's warmth on my face. Do you truly not feel at this moment a benign and loving presence?" "Only yours," he said.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am full of love and that is why I think I’ve been the most unlucky in relationships because I love too much. When I love someone, I love them. Unless you really hurt me to the core, it doesn’t take many years for me to just forgive you and just get back. I was born a loving person,”
Esther Akoth (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh! Don't you throw my love away, I need your loving, I need your loving...”
“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds and forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages-- and love affairs, as well-- is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them rather than taking away.”
Merle Shain (1935–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I am a lover, I will check on you. I don’t cheat. I make sure that you feel loved and warm and home, if you are around me. I make sure when I date, it’s someone I love.”