#lovers

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

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact

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

#anything #friend #friends #lovers #mistress

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

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#gloria-gilbert #lovers #people #radiance #sun

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#days #different #different thing #famous #grew

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#first #lovers #makes #ninety-nine #ninety-nine percent

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. ↗

— Plato

#oath #such #thing

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. ↗