Whether you’re planning your wedding vows, writing a toast, or just daydreaming about someone special, these 100 quotes on love and marriage from poets, artists, and philosophers are sure to inspire.

1. “Where there is love there is life.”

– Mahatma Gandhi
2. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
3. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”

– Audrey Hepburn
4. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
5. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

– Dr. Seuss
6. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

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

– Mignon McLaughlin
8. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
9. “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”

– Alfred Tennyson
10. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

– Lao Tzu
11. “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.”

– Robert Fulghum, True Love
12. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

– Zelda Fitzgerald
13. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”

– George Eliot
14. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

– Edgar Allan Poe
15. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

– Plato
16. “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
17. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

– Marilyn Monroe
18. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
19. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
20. “What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

– Victor Hugo
21. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
22. “Who, being loved, is poor?”

– Oscar Wilde
23. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”

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

– Martin Luther
25. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

– Henry David Thoreau
26. “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

– Sam Levenson
27. “When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche
28. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

– Andre Marois
29. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”

– Sophocles
30. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

– Blaise Pascal
31. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

– Charles M. Schulz
32. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

– E.E. Cummings
33. “This is what we call love. 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
34. “People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”

– Dr. Seuss
35. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

– Rumi
36. “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, The Notebook
37. “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
38. “Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

– Elinor Glyn
39. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
40. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”

– Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
41. “When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”

– John Lennon
42. “I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.”

– Shana Abe
43. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

– Oscar Wilde
44. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

– William Shakespeare
45. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

– Tom Bodett
46. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

– Rumi
47. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Airman’s Odyssey
48. “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
49. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

– David Viscott
50. “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”

– Mother Teresa
51. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

– Elizabeth Browning
52. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

– Robert Heinlein
53. “Love those who love you.”

– Voltaire
54. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”

– Janos Arnay
55. “The bride and groom–May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”

– Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts
56. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

– Elizabeth Browning
57. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

– William Shakespeare
58. “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”

– William Lyon Phelps
59. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

– Emily Bronte
60. “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
61. “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying, ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.'”

– Shall We Dance?
62. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

– Robert Browning
63. “Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”

– Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
64. “Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.”

– You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
65. “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
66. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

– Rumi
67. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
68. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

– Helen Keller
69. “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

– Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
70. “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”

– Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
71. “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”

– Henry David Thoreau
72. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”

– Arwen, The Fellowship of the Ring
73. “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
74. “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.”

– Roy Croft
75. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

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

– F. Scott Fitzgerald
77. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

– Mark Twain
78. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”

– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
79. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

– Oscar Wilde
80. “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

– Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
81. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”

– Swedish proverb
82. “Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have a to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.”

– Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
83. “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

– Albert Einstein
84. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

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

– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
86. “If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
87. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

– William Shakespeare
88. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

– Jodi Picoult
89. “Love insists the loved loves back.”

– Dante Alighieri
90. “Love is a joint experience between two persons–but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”

– Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories
91. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. It is about appreciation.”

– Osho
92. “Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs.”

– Ovid
93. “One is very crazy when in love.”

– Sigmund Freud
94. “Love is a friendship set to music.”

– Joseph Campbell
95. “You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.”

– Woody Harrelson
96. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”

– Lao Tzu
97. “Lots of people want 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.”

– Oprah Winfrey
98. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

– Khalil Gibran
99. “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
100. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

– Hermann Hesse