Skip to content

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.

Random quote on Anniversary

Most quoted on anniversary:

Only beauty purely loving
Knows no discord,
But still moves delight,
Like clear springs renewed by flowing,
Ever perfect, ever in themselves eternal.

Thomas Campion Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602)

But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.

Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Father, Father Abraham,
To-day look on us from above;
On us, the offspring of thy faith,
The children of thy Christ-like love.

James Weldon Johnson Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss
And see this for what it is
That we're not in love

Leslie Feist Let It Die (2004)

“None of my daughters lacked for any love. We had plenty of love in our house.”

Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides (1993)

When Spring is old, and dewy winds
Blow from the south, with odors sweet,
I see my love, in shadowy groves,
Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

Maurice Thompson

A love that took an early root,
And had an early doom.

Thomas Kibble Hervey The Devil's Progress (1849)

Because of sin, I am self-addicted, living in the wreckage of the fall, my body, my heart, and my affections are prone to love things that kill me.

Don Miller Blue Like Jazz (2003)

All hail the conquering hero. My best friend betrayed me, so I shot him. Distracted by a kiss, I let the love of my life die.

Nick Sagan Idlewild (2003)

Sure my love is all crost
Like a bud in the frost
And there's no use at all in my going to bed,
For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

Samuel Lover

"There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

Cassandra Clare City of Glass (2009)

I find you interesting, Joe, so nearly everything you say will be interesting too. I love you. I could say I'm lonely but that's not the only reason.

Daniel Handler Adverbs (2006)

Who do you love? If you love God, you should love people. If you don't love people, you don't love God. It's that simple.

Craig Groeschel It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008)

You always break the kindest heart
With a hasty word you can't recall,
So if I broke your heart last night
It's because I love you most of all.

Doris Fisher

I gave you my arms, my lips, my heart,
My love, my life, my all,
But the best that I had to offer you
I found was all too small.

Eddie DeLange

Love is a never ending smile.

Ronnie James Dio

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

David Gemmell

We all want a simple song. We all want to get along. We all want to just belong. We all want to know right from wrong. We all want to love and be loved strong.

Dawud Wharnsby The Poets And The Prophet (2006)

Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love

Michael Elmore-Meegan All Will be Well (2004)

(On same-sex marriage) It’s a question of human rights, gender equality and equality.

Alexander Stubb

Related topics