Lovers And Friends Quotes:

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, Lovers And Friends, White Sand

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

- Len Wein

source: "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Patience, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship

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

- Stephen King

topic: Love, Friendship, Fake People, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

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

topic: Love, Friends, Jealousy, Lovers And Friends

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, New Friendship, Special Friendship

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

- Lewis Mumford

source: "My Works and Days". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1979.

topic: Cities, Car, Lovers, Motor Cars, Lovers And Friends

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Truth, Frightening, Lovers And Friends, Surpassing

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

- Albert Camus

topic: Struggle, Love Is, Long, Lovers And Friends

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

- J. Brent Bill

topic: Heart, Rushing, Silence, Lovers And Friends, Quiet Time

There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

- John Lennon

topic: Life, Forever, Popular Song, Lovers And Friends, Beatles Love

The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Love You, Creativity, Missing, Lovers And Friends, Surpassing

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

- Eric Clapton

source: Song: Promises, Album: Backless, 1978

topic: Lovers, Like You, Fine, Lovers And Friends

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Jesus, Men, Purpose, Lovers And Friends

People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them - and thats just not cuttin' it for me. If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!

- Aeriel Miranda

topic: Media, Data, People, Lovers And Friends

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

- Anais Nin

topic: Hurt, Imagination, Doe, Lovers And Friends

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Lovers And Friends

In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.

- Marian Seldes

topic: Book, Perfect, Shining, Lovers And Friends

The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Men, Two, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

- Robert Farrar Capon

topic: Lying, Simple, Cities, Residents, Lovers And Friends

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Silly, Use, Lovers, Lovers And Friends

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Teacher, Light, Lovers, Lovers And Friends

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

- Aberjhani

topic: Brother, Son, Black, Lovers And Friends

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.929, Macmillan

topic: Kings, Men, Dragons, Lovers And Friends

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.597, e-artnow

topic: Love, Friendship, Nature, Lovers And Friends