Quotations of Love

Your wedding day is a truly special day - it is the start of a wonderful journey with another person. No longer are you two, but instead, you become one.

But remember, the wedding is not an end in itself - the journey has only just begun. The wedding day is the start of marriage, a lifelong commitment.

Let this small collection of inspirational and touching wedding quotes help mark your wedding day, and make it even more special than it already is!

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
~ William Shakespeare ~

My true love hath my heart, and I have his
~ Philip Sydney ~

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all
~ St. Augustine~

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.
~ Author Unknown ~

My first glance fell on your heart
~ Johann F.C. Schiller ~

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.
~ Unknown ~

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
~ Plato ~

There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
~ George Sands ~

Love those who love you
~ Voltaire ~

My beloved is mine and I am his
~ Song of Songs ~

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same
~ Emily Bronte ~

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks
~ John Donne ~

Soulmates
two halves of the same soul
joining together in lifes journey
~ Author Unknown ~

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without
~ Author Unknown ~

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
~ Mother Theresa ~

A kiss can beautify souls hearts and thoughts
~ Author Unknown ~

I can guarantee we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point - one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, 'cause I know in my heart you're the only one for me.
~ From the movie Runaway Bride ~

Tis better to have loved and lost
than to never have loved at all
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand
~ Author Unknown ~

There is no remedy for love than to love more
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

You are always new,
The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
~ John Keats ~

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
~ Socrates ~

Love is a smoke raised by the fume of sighs.
~ William Shakespeare ~

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose
beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

How sweet a thing it is to love---
And to be loved again.
~ Henry Howard Brownell ~

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but
from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be
possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
~ Christopher Marlowe ~

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
~ Author Unknown ~

It's not my ear you whispered into, but my heart. It's not my lips that you kissed, but my soul.
~ Author Unknown ~

Love can touch us one time
and last for a lifetime,
and never let go till we're gone.
~ Theme from the movie "Titanic" ~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Tzo, Lao ~

You call it madness, but I call it love.
~ Don Byas ~

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

Look, lovers: almost separately they come
towards us through the flowery grass and slowly;
parting's so far from thought of, they indulge
the extravagance of walking unembraced.
~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Love comeforteth like sunshine after rain
~ William Shakespeare ~

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
~ Sophocles ~

Love does not consist of gazing at each other,
but looking outward in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same:
Only love.
~ From the movie "Don Juan DeMarco" ~

Love is the joy of the good,
the wonder of the wise,
the amazement of the Gods.
~ Plato ~

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
~ William Shakespeare ~

Give all to love
~ Waldo Ralph Emerson ~

We two have found each other... different yet alike
We have grown together in love and understanding
~ Author Unknown ~

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
~ Author Unknown ~

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
~ A Latin Proverb ~

Where there is love there is life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

If I never met you, I would have dreamt you into being.
~ Sebastian Chantoix ~

All you need is love.
~ John Lennon ~

If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.
~ Author Unknown ~

Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.
Our times are in his hand.
~ Robert Browning ~

For I have found the one whom my soul loves.
~ Song of Solomon ~

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo ~

Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt thou love
~ William Shakespeare ~

Oh my love's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprun in June
Oh my love's like a melody
That's sweetly sung in tune
~ Robert Burns ~

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
~ Waldo Ralph Emerson ~

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.
~ Author Unknown ~

Each morning as I awaken, your the reason I smile, your the reason I love.
~ Jerry Burton ~

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
~ Herman Hesse ~

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Author Unknown~


We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love.
~Gene Perret~


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig~


I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown~


After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. 
~Douglas William Jerrold~


[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally~


Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
~Author Unknown~


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders~


My whole heart for my whole life.
~French saying used on poesy rings~


I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~


True love stories never have endings.
~Richard Bach~


There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~Martin Luther~


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown~


Many are the stars I see, but in my eye no star like thee.
~English saying used on poesy rings~


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
~Author Unknown~


A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor~


Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
~Author Unknown~


Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore~


If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson~


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~Rita Rudner~


Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. 
~Ambrose Bierce~


The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~Peter Devries~


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~Mignon McLaughlin~


The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
~William Lyon Phelps~


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
~Author Unknown~


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~Emily Brontë~


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
~Friedrich Nietzsche~


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~Albert Einstein~


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes~


When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca~


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
~Ovid~


I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood~


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard~


Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde~


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~Zora Neale Hurston~


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn't put there to stay -
Love isn't love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"~


Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens~


Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day.
~Francis Quarles~


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~Robert Browning~


All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.
~Emily Dickinson~


When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. ~The Brahma Sutras~


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
~Author Unknown~


If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
~John Donne~


Two souls, one heart.
~French saying used on poesy rings~


My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare~


There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
~Menander~


Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship's at an end.
~Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza~


One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
~M.M. Musselman~


Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
~Mrs Patrick Campbell~


A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
~Andre Maurois~


Love me and the world is mine.
~David Reed~


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966~

Love is not a matter of counting the years… But by making the years count.
~Michelle St. Amand~

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
~ Josiah G Holland~

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; The more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare~

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Author unknown~

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~Albert Einstein~

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~Peter Ustinov~

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard~

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~Robert Heinlen~



Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare~

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~Charles Morgan~

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~John Bulwer~

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~Jonathan Carroll~

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau~

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but it must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~

You are what I never knew I always wanted.
~Fools Rush In~

Everything I do, I do it for you. Anything that might be special in me… is you.
~Great Expectations~

True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
~Kissing a Fool~

I love this spot. It's like heaven. Right here on earth. Maybe that's what heaven is. Maybe we go through life collecting people and places we love, and they become our heaven.
~Here on Earth~

He who wants to do good knocks at the gates: he who loves finds the door open.
~Rabrindranath Tagore~

Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.
~Braveheart~

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
~Roy Croft~

There are millions of people in this world, but in the end, it all comes down to one.
~Crazy/Beautiful~

The greatest joy of my life is being in love with you.
~Anon~

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
~Thomas Carlyle~

Love is everything it's cracked up to be… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
~Erica Jong~

This is my beloved and this is my friend.
~Song of Solomon~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu~

A heart that loves is always young.
~Leo Tolstoy~

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
~Anon~

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
~Evelyn Underhill~

So, fall asleep love, loved by me, for I know, I am loved by thee.
~Robert Browning~

 

"It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano."
Arthur Rubinstein

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."
Barbara De Angelis

"In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums."
Douglas Jerrold

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
Friedrich Halm

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
Oliver Goldsmith

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
Plautus

"Here's to the happy man: All the world loves a lover."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
Roy Goodman

"I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife."
Unknown

"This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love."
Unknown

"Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you."
Walter Winchell

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

"Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts."
William Shakespeare

"Look down, you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown."
William Shakespeare