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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever
Only, nothing is eternal.

Audre Lorde

Love, we soon come to understand, too often provides the occasion for the misuses and abuse of power.

Francine Prose

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?

Cole Porter

If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Swami Narayanananda A Practical Guide to Samadhi (1957)

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

Robert Leighton

Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.

Peter J. Carroll Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

Love is not a feeling but rather a conscious state.

Richard David Precht

The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.

Tanith Lee Volkhavaar (1977)

There is only one person that can be "more than a father", it is your dear mother, whose love for her offspring is unbounded by heaven and earth.

Hyder Bux Jatoi

No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.

Fowell Buxton Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer

You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.

Brian Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Is there a place
here for the spirit? Is there time
on this brief platform for anything
other than mind's failure to explain itself?

R. S. Thomas Frequencies (1978)

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden ahbez Joe Romersa (1992)

When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.

Adrienne von Speyr Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

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