May I get melted on your embrace, and meld into your wholeness.
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.
Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.
Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure
Is bitterer still.
But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good?
I loved him too as woman loves —
Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn.
Love's too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt.
Let those love now who never lov'd before,
Let those who always loved now love the more.
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Time,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
When your heart is a party, solitude becomes crowded with memories.