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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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They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the human heart.

Alastair Reynolds Redemption Ark (2002)

That is the true measure of love, you see, the evil one will stoop to for its sake...

Michael Swanwick Jack Faust (1997)

I wish to fall ill that all my time may pass in seclusion with the Lord and be saved appearing in mass prayers.

Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

When you recognize the Beauty, you will also recognize the Beloved and fall in love with Him.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I am the Proof of God for the created beings and I am a proof for the saints (awliya) of my time.

Sahl al-Tustari

LOVE & FAITH ~my 2 favorite words that I carry strongly in my heart which I desperately needed to get thru this incredibly difficult year.

Coco Lee

“How easily you men forget, even when you tell yourselves you are ‘in love,’ whatever idiocy that phrase may convey to your superstitious and romantic little mind!”

Andrew J. Offutt Ardor on Aros (1973)

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

Isaac Asimov The Foundation series (1951)

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

H. G. Wells The First Men in the Moon (1901)

Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! consider it well, and know that this is your own country.

Kabir Songs of Kabîr (1915)

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Gottfried Leibniz The Elements of True Piety (1677)

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Notebooks (1835)

But love can mean many things. It can be an instrument of aggression or a function of disease.

Roger Zelazny Frost & Fire (1989)

Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.

Ernest Dimnet The Art of Thinking (1928)

The demons had invented love. There needs to be said no more.

Tanith Lee Night's Sorceries (1987)

The Sufi's love to God goes with God's love towards him. Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.

Dhul-Nun al-Misri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Everyone wants love, but there are so few who can give it. Or else you offer it passionately, selflessly, and it's rejected, your love is not wanted, it's a burden.

Sophia Tolstaya

From the hand of the cup-bearer I drank the goblet of love. Oneness became overpowering, forget infidelity and Islam.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I fear to accept anything from anybody lest my heart should start cherishing love for that person. I desire only to live in His thoughts.

Sufyan al-Thawri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Divine way is extremely difficult to tread, but you should not despair. If you have courage, true aspiration, and ardency of love, then come to this path, otherwise be silent.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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