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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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Most quoted on anniversary:

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Jimmy Carr

Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky.

Robert Bridges

We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.

Meg White

One candle is enough. Its gentle light
will be more suitable, will be more gracious
when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

Constantine P. Cavafy Collected Poems (1992)

The sand as white
as old bones, the pine trees
strangely red where the sun comes down.
I cannot say if it is our love,
or the day, that is ending.

Anna Akhmatova Departures (1964)

I was thrilled. I loved the idea of opening everything up, of making old and secret documents available to anybody who wished to see them.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.

Simone de Beauvoir All Men are Mortal (1946)

The command to a Christian couple is: "Grow in grace and love together."

G. E. M. Anscombe Contraception and Chastity (1975)

I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it.

Ashlee Simpson

Muse who in the past inspired me to sing of the throes of love:
Go and repose.
What I need is a sword, rivers of gold,
and acrid prose.

José Rizal

And never will I wed.
I'll hunt the pearl of death to the bottom of my life,
and ever hold my breath,
till I may be the diver's wife.

Joanna Newsom Divers (2015)

Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay!
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

William Allingham

Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long,
And saw love in a dark crown
Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree
Golden with fruit of a man's body.

R. S. Thomas Song at the Year's Turning (1955)

The love-diffusing [Lord] will separate us.

Taliesin Book of Taliesin (1275)

She, perhaps, was the one I should have always loved; she whom I seek gropingly, desperately, from each to the next.

Henri Barbusse Light (1919)

It's so easy to fall in love — it's so easy to fall in love.
People tell me love is for fools,
So here I go breaking all of the rules.

Buddy Holly

’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour!
My fondest hopes would not decay:
I never loved a tree or flower
Which was the first to fade away.

Charles Stuart Calverley

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck Wisdom and Destiny (1898)

Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie.

Frederic Raphael Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001)

But, ah! if empty dreams so please,
Love give me more such nights as these.

Robert Herrick Hesperides (1648)

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