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Lovers Quotes by John Cheever
- 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.
- I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps,…
- For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
More Lovers Quotes
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the… — Djuna Barnes
- In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new… — Billy Joel
- Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Rumi
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister.… — Cate Blanchett
- Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made… — Leonard Cohen