Petulant priests, greedy
centurions, and one million
incensed gestures stand
between your love and me.
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.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know…
Against the outcrop boulders of a raised beach
We built our house when I and my love were young.
Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.
"Look out pop-culture! Bono has had enough of 'romantic love'."
The human heart is a cup of love, where some find life and zest, and some drunkenness and death.