We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal. (Latin: "Sentimus experimurque nos æternos esse.")
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.
For the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are everlasting.
Even at this sight
My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,
It shall be stony.
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand.
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.
I think about grief as a measure of our love, that grief compels us to do something, to love more.
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.