We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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.
We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter.
Sweet breathe the henna-flowers that harem girls
So love to twine among their glossy curls.
I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.
I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.
For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.
I thought it strange that my teacher could not show me love.