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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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Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.

Sydney Carter Julian of Norwich (1983)

A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Arthur Miller The Crucible (1953)

Is not love itself a form of a spell, where one is loved and the other loves, and the one who loves is compelled to do the other’s bidding? Of course. It is the same thing.

Roger Zelazny Jack of Shadows (1971)

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Ebriel regarded his adversary. His eyes grew peculiarly lambent, as though he had come to love her. Of course, they were sworn foes; perhaps he had.

Tanith Lee Delirium's Mistress (1986)

I remembered what Jamie had said, that love doesn't solve anything. Maybe. But it helps.

S. E. Hinton Tex (1982)

She’d been happier with him than she had ever thought imaginable, but only now she understood it wasn’t because their DNA had dictated it, but because she’d opened herself up to the concept of love.

John Marrs The One (2017)

There is a critical moment in the calendar of love, and its power is infinite.

Nikolay Karamzin

In the Jail, there is a Government supplied radio, and I hear music and news occasionally. My time, however, passes in my pastime; I live by myself, alone.

Hyder Bux Jatoi

It is love that acts like a disease, but it works in reverse: it is good when it infects, it kills when it heals.

Paolo Crepet

Every culture has a need for the divine, more like a need for love.

Giulio Giorello

Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes — give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give.

W. Clement Stone

Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.

Vātsyāyana

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Christopher Reeve

Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

Arthur Miller The Crucible (1953)

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.

Amit Ray Walking the Path of Compassion (2015)

Love is almost the only passion that the good man may avow. It is the only one which accords with delicacy.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

I came to this world (as a ) stranger, I am tried of this land.
The time has come that I break this trap of enslavement.

Yunus Emre

If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the "Sun" of a human gift economy, the source that constantly replenishes the flow of gifts? Maybe it is love.

Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024)

Oh, who can sound the human breast?
And this strange truth must be confessed;
That city do I love the best
Wherein my heart was heaviest!

Amy Levy A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

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