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When you are writing your wedding vows or crafting your wedding ceremony you’ll probably want some inspiration. Romantic quotes about love and marriage are the perfect source of inspiration for your wedding day.

Below we are sharing 125 quotes you can use to inspire your wedding vows or even your wedding ceremony or invitations. Whether you’re looking for a sentimental saying or a funny quote you’ll find some unique ideas in this list. From poets to singers to unknown sources, these quotes can help you capture the love you feel.

1. “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
2. “It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can’t remember how you lived without them.” —Anurag Prakash Ray
3. “When I look at you, I see everything I’ve ever wanted.” —Anonymous
4. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
5. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —Winnie the Pooh
6. “I know they say there are a lot of fish in the sea, but you’re my Nemo.” —Unknown
7. “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.” —Terry Pratchett
8. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning
9. “Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
10. “Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.” — Samuel Richardson
11. “True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
12. “Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
13. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
14. “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
15. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
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.” —Harry, When Harry Met Sally
17. “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” – William Lyon Phelps
18. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
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. “Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.” —J.D. Salinger
21. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
22. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
24. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
25. “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
26. “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
27. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
28. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
29. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Browning
30. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
31. “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
32. “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
33. “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting
34. “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
35. “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
36. “Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
37. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” —Leo Christopher
38. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
39. “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” —N.R. Hart
40. “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
41. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.” – Swedish proverb
42. “Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
43. “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
44. “Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.” – Vertigo
45. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
46. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
47. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia
48. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer
49. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard
50. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
51. “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
52. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Arwen, The Fellowship of the Ring
53. “Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
54. “My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never.” – Unknown
55. “You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Gone With the Wind
56. “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
57. “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
58. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” —William Shakespeare
59. “Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” – Unknown
60. “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
61. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
62. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
63. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
64. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
65. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – János Arany
66. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
67. “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
68. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
69. “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau
70. “Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” – Fawn Weaver
71. “I’m feeling alive and with every breath that I take, I feel like I’ve won. You’re my key to survival.” –
    Secondhand Serenade
72. “I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.” – Javan
73. “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
74. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” – E.E. Cummings
75. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
76. “Wise men say only fools rush in but I can’t help falling in love with you.” – Elvis
77. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
78. “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.'” – Genesis 2:18
79. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
80. “And I knew exactly how old Walt Disney’s Cinderella felt when she found her prince.” – Elizabeth Young
81. “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
82. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
83. “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.” – David Sedaris
84. “Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.” – Unknown
85. “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
86. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
87. “I don’t know where I’d be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You’re my best friend.” – Tim McGraw
88. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
89. “When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.” – Nights in Rodanthe
90. “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.” – Song of Solomon 6:3
91. “A friend is always good to have, but a lover’s kiss is better than angels raining down at me.” – Dave Matthews Band
92. “Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.” – Friedrich Halm
93. “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
94. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Marois
95. “Even a pain in the ass needs someone to take care of them.” – 28 Days
96. “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.” – Henry Ford
97. “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
98. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” – Robert Brault
99. “You make me want to be a better man.” – As Good As It Gets
100. “A good marriage is like a casserole: only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.” – Unknown
101. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” – George Eliot
102. “All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.” – The Beatles
103. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
104. “When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” – John Lennon
105. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – Corinthians 13:13
106. “I’ll never let you down. No matter what you do. If you just walk with me. And let me walk with you.” –Neil Young
107. “The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning— but rather as love grows and develops over time.” – Fawn Weaver
108. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
109. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing more.” – Victor Hugo
110. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge
111. “I know she’s not perfect but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God that she isn’t ’cause how boring would that be.” – Brad Paisley
112. “You don’t marry the person you can live with — you marry the person you can’t live without.” – Unknown
113. “Love insists the loved loves back.” – Dante Alighieri
114. “When the darkness rolls in, I’ll be there through thick and thin.” – Hilary Duff
115. “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
116. “Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.”– Dwight Moody
117. “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.”
     – Corinthians 13:7
118. “The best friend will probably get the best spouse, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.”  – Friedrich Nietzsche
119. “Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.” – Boris Pasternak
120. “A perfect relationship isn’t actually perfect, it’s just that both people never give up.” – Unknown
121. “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” – Micael Leunig
122. “True love is the joy of life.” – John Clarke
123. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone—​we find it with another.” –  Thomas Merton
124. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”– Aristotle
125. “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”— The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White