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Anniversary Quotes

There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.

Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.

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The thing nobody ever tells you about marriage is that sometimes it makes you lonelier than being alone ever could.

Michael Ian Black

The love of Allah and His Prophet (Muhammad) is infinitely superior to the love of mortal human beings and of other worldly things.

Meher Ali Shah The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

The gnostic (arif) attains the station of passionate love of God so that he may experience Godhead or His pure Essence.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Dating is not only about sharing who you are as a person — it works best when you find out about the other person.

Cassindy Chao Ancient Wisdom Modern Love (2024)

Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

Elbert Hubbard A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Marshall McLuhan The Mechanical Bride (1951)

In his opinion, neither justice nor mercy were very closely related to love, let alone being identical with it—otherwise, why have three words instead of one? A metaphor is not a tautology.

James Blish A Style in Treason (1970)

The spiritual state of nearness of God is a sign of true saintliness. This ultimately results in the experience of love and longing for early union.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Cokie Roberts

For every marriage then is best in tune,
When that the wife is May, the husband June.

Rowland Watkyns

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

Miguel de Unamuno Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue (1920)

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Arthur Miller The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia Born For Love (1994)

Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.

Meher Baba Meher Baba’s Call (1954)

He doesn’t know how one proceeds under the circumstances, except with the certainty, pressed to the heart like a keepsake of love, that in the end nothing really matters.

Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

I can feel a something pounding in my brain
Just any time that someone speaks your name
Trumpets sound and I hear thunder boom
Every time that you walk in the room.

Jackie DeShannon When You Walk In The Room (1962)

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

R. A. Lafferty Arrive at Easterwine (1971)

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Paul Tillich The New Being (1955)

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humberto Maturana Humberto Maturana et al (1996)

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.

Thomas Lansing Masson

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