“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Wedding quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of anniversary, wedding, love, love.
Best wedding quotes
“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
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
Stephen King book Doctor Sleep
Source: Doctor Sleep
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Wedding quotes
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Variant: Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Variant: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Source: Wuthering Heights
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“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
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Variant: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist
Source: Revolutionary Petunias
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Variant: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
Source: Love and Living
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
Ruth Bell Graham (1920–2007) Congressional Gold Medal recipient
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“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
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Variant: You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Source: True Love (1998)
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“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)
“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XLVIII
Following the Equator (1897)
Variant: To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Variant: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Source: Discours de réception, Séance De L'académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps' work on the Suez Canal.
Context: To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
Variant: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: Love Poems and Sonnets
“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The White Company
The White Company (1891)
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American journalist
Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
Helen Schucman (1909–1981) Clinical Psychologist
Jesus' Course in Miracles (2000) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 162
“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
Statement portrayed as a quotation in a 1927 Reader's Digest article, this probably derives from traditions about Alexander lamenting at his father Philip's victories that there would be no conquests left for him, or that after his conquests in Egypt and Asia there were no worlds left to conquer. <br class="br">Some of the oldest accounts of this, as quoted by John Calvin state that on "hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one." <br class="br">This may originate from Plutarch's essay On the Tranquility of Mind, part of the essays Moralia: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?" <br class="br">There are no more other worlds to conquer! <br class="br">Variant attributed as his "last words" at a few sites on the internet, but in no published sources. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_tranquillitate_animi*.html
“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
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician
Source: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Blood Wedding and Yerma
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Rohinton Mistry book Family Matters
Source: Family Matters