Planning a wedding—and making it feel as meaningful and personal as possible—is not always an easy feat. When it comes to matters of the heart, turn to famous words of wisdom about love and life to give you some ideas for the speeches, readings and signage your day requires. Avoid words for words sake; add a thoughtful quote to your program, highlighting something important to both of you as a couple, or choose to incorporate sentimental notes into personalized vows, speeches, or readings. Signage, decor, invitations, and more are directional or ornamental, keep them simple and void of excess verbiage.
Whether you're writing your vows or need some inspiration for your ceremony, which we recommend you discuss with your planner, we've rounded up some of our favorite philosophical, literary, influential, and pop culture quotes on all things love and romance. Here, 50 powerful phrases to inspire your upcoming wedding celebration—and more.
Philosophical quotes about love.
1. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu
2. "Where there is love, there is life." Mahatma Ghandi
3. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” Dalai Lama
4. "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone–we find it with another." Thomas Merton
5. "Love is the Water of Life." Rumi
6. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” Lao Tzu
7. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau
8. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” Voltaire
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9. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” Albert Einstein
Literary quotes about love.
10. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: yours is the darkness of my soul’s return—you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” E.E. Cummings, #38 of 73
11. "I loved you first: but afterwards your love." Christina Rossetti, Monna Innominata
12. “There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
13. "Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary." Oscar Wilde
14. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
15. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
16. “Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.” Charles Dickens, Bleak House
17. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." Antoine de Saint-Exupery, On Love
18. "If music be the food of love, play on." William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
19. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person
20. "You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have." Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
21. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Charles Dickens, Hard Times
22. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” Zelda Fitzgerald
23. "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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24. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Seuss
25. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
26. “When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
27. "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou
28. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever." Alfred Tennyson
29. "I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea." Nicholas Sparks
30. “It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do.” Jane Austen, Emma
31. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
33. “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
34. “Who, being loved, is poor?” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
35. "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Legacy quotes about love.
36. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” Martin Luther
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37. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
38. “There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.” Ronald Reagan
39. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”Mother Teresa
40. "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." Max Muller
41. “What is done in love is done well.” Vincent Van Gogh
Pop culture quotes about love.
42. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” Audrey Hepburn
43. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” The Beatles
44. “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.” Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
45. "All that you are is all that I’ll ever need." Ed Sheeran, "Tenerife Sea"
46. "Here's looking at you, kid." Casablanca
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47. "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever." Walt Disney
48. "Love is real, real is love." John Lennon
49. “They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.” Audrey Hepburn
50. “Because when I look at you, I can feel it. And I look at you and I’m home.” Dory, Finding Nemo
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