Anniversary quotes

A collection of quotes on the topic of teachers' day, graduation, wedding, birthday.

Best anniversary quotes

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To live is to love, to love is to live.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

“Every real story is a never ending story.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Anniversary quotes

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

love , Cute , Romantic , For Her

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

love , Good Night , Cute , Romantic

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

For Wife , love , Missing You , Relationship

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Men

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

love , Cute , Romantic , Valentine's Day

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variant: 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.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

For Wife , love , Friendship , Relationship

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

love , Relationship , Good Night , Good Morning

“I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Best of the Improv, Vol. 3 (2003)

For Him , Love , Life , Personality

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

292
Table Talk (1569)

Relationship , Wedding , Love , Marriage

“It's a wonderful life if you can find it.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Source: Complete Lyrics

Motivational , Depressing , Life

“As long as there's life, there's hope.”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children

Deep , Beauty , Birthday , Hope

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

love , Wise , Happy , Relationship

“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic

“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Eric Rücker Eddison book A Fish Dinner in Memison

A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

Attitude , For Wife , Back To Work , Father's Day

“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

"Where Are We Now?" (2013)
Song lyrics, The Next Day (2013)
Context: Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you

Sad , Missing You , Goodbye , Heart Touching

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) Spanish dramatist

Love , Madness , For Wife , love

“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Funny

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Sad , Love , People , Thinking

“To know and not to do is really not to know.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

For Wife , Depressing , Graduation

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

Happy , Beauty , For Wife , Good Morning

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director

Change

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States

love , Good Morning , Cute , Romantic

“There are never enough 'I love you's.”

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic

Success , For Wife , love , Relationship

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

Wedding , For Her , World

“That's not my love; that's just your life.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.

Attitude , Birthday , For Wife , love

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

For Wife , love , Relationship , Romantic

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ”

Миньон МакЛафлин (1913–1983)

For Wife , love , Relationship , Romantic

“I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Relationship , Love , Beauty

“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

For Wife , love , Cute , Romantic

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Truth , Thinking

“With our love, we could save the world.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

love , Cute , Romantic , For Her

“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

For Wife , Wedding , Love , Life

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Marriage , Sleep

“But what is life if you don't live it?”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Hurtful , Life

“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”

Paul Sweeney (1989) Scottish politician

Wedding , Love , Wedding , Partnership

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Happy , Family , Wedding , Happiness

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Love

“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”

Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter

love , Good Night , Cute , Romantic

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Love

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

Life , Cute , Birthday , Life

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

For Wife , love , Missing You , Good Night

“All I think of ever is that I love you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

For Wife , Love , Thinking

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind

love , Relationship , Good Night , Cute

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed

For Wife , Wedding , For Him , For Parents

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

Deep , love , Relationship , Cute

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

For Wife , love , Cute , Romantic

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

For Wife , love , Wise , Relationship

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

For Wife , love , Relationship , Good Night

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

Happy , For Wife , love , Wise

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

love , Cute , Romantic , Valentine's Day

“The future was not what it used to be.”

K. A. Bedford book Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait

Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)

Funny , Wise , Faith , Family

“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

Divine Love and Wisdom #1

love , Wedding , For Men , For Parents

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it… you and you alone make me feel that I am alive… Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist

Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.

Cute , Valentine's Day , For Her , Men

“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”

Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States

"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

love , Good Night , Cute , Romantic

“That is what I want to be remembered for.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Yours, Isaac Asimov (20 September 1973) 
General sources
Context: What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

Birthday , For women , Good Night , Mother's Day

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 306

Love , Change , Chance , Personality

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Friendship , Marriage , Happiness , Books