118 Two Lovers Quotes

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Famous Two Lovers Quotes

A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare

The star-crossed lovers - Suzanne Collins

The star-crossed lovers — Suzanne Collins

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

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

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. — Rumi

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech — T. S. Eliot

Two human loves make one divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. — Homer

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves — Sigmund Freud

In love, one and one are one. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. — Jasper Fforde

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea. — Jimi Hendrix

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm

Every lover is a soldier. — Ovid

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. — William Shakespeare

Short Two Lovers Quotes

  • Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Though lovers be lost love shall not. — Dylan Thomas
  • Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. — Margaret Fuller
  • At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. — Jean De La Bruyere
  • Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time — Lauren Kate
  • Journeys end in lovers meeting. — William Shakespeare
  • Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. — Rumi
  • A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress. — Plutarch

Two Lovers Image Quotes

Two lovers quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Having Two Lovers Quotes

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. — Fulton J. Sheen

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life. — Gisele Bundchen

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one — Robert Benchley

Two lovers quote The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, he
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.

...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.) — M. F. K. Fisher

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power. — Robert Y. Hayne

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac

Two lovers quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

In Sister Swing, the two sisters have boyfriends and they go to bed with them, but the descriptions are not graphic. They're minimal. The sex is not graphic in the way that DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover has all these graphic passages. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books. — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go. — Samuel Richardson

Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affectionBuddha

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Theresa

Two lovers quote Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. — Roy Croft

Two lovers quote The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. - Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. — Anonymous

True Lovers Quotes

You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover. — Shams Tabrizi

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. - Marilyn Monroe

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. — Marilyn Monroe

Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover. — Vatsyayana

Two lovers quote There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things. — Plato

Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without. — Raphael Montanez Ortiz

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. - William Shakespeare

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. — William Shakespeare

Two lovers quote The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. — Leo Buscaglia

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves — Ralph Washington Sockman

Lovers Meeting Quotes

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr

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

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. — Stevie Nicks

Two lovers quote There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to de
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment. — Plato

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. — Philip James Bailey

A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from. — Carrie Fisher

Two lovers quote If two past lovers cannot remain friends, either they are still in love or never were
If two past lovers cannot remain friends, either they are still in love or never were

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift. — Ruth Westheimer

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known. — Lao Tzu

We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers. — Patri Friedman

Lovers And Friends Quotes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one. — Yunus Emre

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

Two lovers quote Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase
Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them. Good morning.

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

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal. — Tom Hayden

Two lovers quote We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

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

I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift. — Lucy Hale

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. — T.C. Boyle

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me. — Aretha Franklin

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More Two Lovers Quotes

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language." — Morey Amsterdam

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. — Mechthild of Magdeburg

It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs

These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting. — Osho

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed. But it rained so much the boat couldn't cross the river. So the two couldn't meet, even though the camellia flowers had all bloomed. Lets meet again. Before the camellia flowers wilt. — John the Apostle

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you. — Liz Phair

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach. — Richard Brautigan

He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other. — Richard Russo

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

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. — Dan Devine

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. — Ursula K. Le Guin

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean — William Shakespeare

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others. — Alain de Botton

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

I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes. — William Butler Yeats

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event. — Saul Bellow

To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. — Vincent Van Gogh

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. — John Updike

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do. — Vincent Van Gogh

You become so intense that you are not there, because if you are there then the intensity cannot be total; then two are there. If you love and the lover is there, then love cannot be intense. Love so deeply, so totally, that the lover disappears. Then you are just an energy moving. Then you will know love, you will know life, you will know death. — Osho

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities. — Michel Foucault

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

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. — William Shakespeare

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

Forever is not a word...rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there. — Stephanie

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart. — Rumi

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs. — Groucho Marx

The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others. — John Olsen

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. — Rumi

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to. — Saoirse Ronan

In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak for all straight people. My job as an author is to give voice to these very particular characters - these two men, in this time, and in this place — Madeline Miller

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. — Stendhal

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. — Cesare Pavese

I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace. — Elizabeth I

September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way. — Neil Diamond

In the whole of the universe there are only two: the lover and the beloved. — Bhai Sahib Singh

Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey. — Osho

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