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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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Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Paulo Coelho By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

[T]he soul of love is the invincible difference of lovers, while its subtle matter is the identity of their desires.

Paul Valéry L'Âme et la danse (1921)

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.

James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers (1848)

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.

Cesare Pavese This Business of Living (1935)

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

Helen Schucman A Course in Miracles (1976)

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,—
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out.

John Davies

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Suzanne Curchod Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

"...The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. … The best we can hope for in life is that it doesn't happen for a long, long time."

Nicholas Sparks Nights in Rodanthe (2002)

This heart is black
like blood that has dried

Charlotte Wessels

"When a man has two wives and does not treat them equally, he will come on the Day of Resurrection with half his body fallen off."

Thomas Hughes

"The Prophet used to divide his time equally amongst his wives, and he would say, 'O God, I divide impartially that which thou hast put in my power.'"

Thomas Hughes

"A Muslim must not hate his wife, for if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, thou let him he pleased with another that is good."

Thomas Hughes

The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.

Pema Chödrön How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

Love is the gift that brings us nearer Heaven
Than any other gift the world can hold,
And perfect Love is nearest perfect bliss.

Violet Fane

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.

John Keats

In an infinite, eternal universe, the point is that anything is possible, and it's unlikely that we can even begin to scratch the surface of the full range of possibilities.

Stanley Kubrick Playboy Interview (1968)

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.

Philip James Bailey Festus (1813)

My heart's so full of joy,
That I shall do some wild extravagance
Of love in public, and the foolish world,
Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

John Dryden All for Love (1678)

Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

John Milton

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
I could endure, without him live no life.

John Milton

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