“Love - is anterior to Life - Posterior - to Death.”
Emily Dickinson

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANNIVERSARY
Read 200 beautiful anniversary quotes about lasting love, marriage and growing old together from Shakespeare, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“Love - is anterior to Life - Posterior - to Death.”
Emily Dickinson
“That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love.”
Emily Dickinson
“My heart is like a singing bird. Because the birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me.”
Christina Rossetti
“When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.”
Kahlil Gibran
“To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Thou hast ravished my heart.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 4:9)
“I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 3:4)
“His banner over me was love.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:4)
“Rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
The Bible (Proverbs 5:18)
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:9)
“Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
The Bible (1 Peter 4:8)
“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love.”
The Bible (Ephesians 4:2)
“Love is the eldest and noblest and mightiest of the gods.”
Plato
“At the touch of love every one becomes a poet.”
Plato
“The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds.”
Victor Hugo
“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
Victor Hugo
“I have loved none but you.”
Jane Austen
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love - I have found you.”
Charlotte Brontë
“You are part of my existence, part of myself.”
Charles Dickens
“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there will be you.”
Thomas Hardy
“Everything I know, I know only because I love.”
Leo Tolstoy
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of Love.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“My love is such that rivers cannot quench, nor ought but love from thee give recompense.”
Anne Bradstreet
“Why don't you speak for yourself, John?”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow