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 want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Statement to his future wife Mary Welsh, recalled in her obituaries (26 November 1986)
On 9/11 we were attacked. And so, I should get to bang your wife.
[Nelson] "...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife."
Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.
I was more fucked-up than Courtney Love at the Pamela Anderson roast!