50 Quotes About Love and Marriage

Whether you're in need of some inspiration for writing your vows or need help preparing for a big toast, these quotes will bring out the Shakespeare in you.

By: Jenna Hastings

Writing your own vows is a popular (and beautiful) way to personalize your ceremony, but sometimes, finding the right words can be tricky. Or maybe you're preparing to make a toast and need a little inspiration to make your speech one-of-a-kind. To help you out, we've compiled our favorite wedding-appropriate quotes, ranging from what it feels like to fall in love to how to weather the ups and downs of marriage. Read, write, and be inspired!

Photo Credit: Polka Dot Bride via Lover.ly Falling in Love:

• “Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” —Unknown Author
• “And I knew exactly how old Walt Disney’s Cinderella felt when she found her prince.” —Elizabeth Young
• “When you look for the right person, you always end up with the wrong one. But when you just sit by the corner and wait, he comes along and shares the corner with you.” —Unknown Author
• “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
• “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
• “You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face, but in your heart as well.” —Unknown Author
• “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” —Judy Garland
• “For you see, each day I love you more 
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” —Rosemonde Gerard

What is Love?

• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
• “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
• “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
• “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” —Leo Buscaglia
• “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
• “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” —Robert Brault
• “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” —Unknown Author
• “You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” —Henry Drummond
• “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
• “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
• “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” —Mignon McLaughlin
• “It is love that makes impossible possible.” —Indian Proverb
• “Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” —Fawn Weaver
• “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” —Janos Arnay
• “Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.” —Friedrich Halm

The Meaning of Marriage:

• “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin
• “The groom always smiles proudly because he’s convinced he’s accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she’s been able to convince him of it.” —Judith McNaught
• “You don’t marry the person you can live with … you marry the person you can’t live without.” —Unknown Author
• “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” —Mark Twain
• “Sexiness wears thin after a while, and beauty fades. But to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, now that’s a real treat.” —JoAnne Woodward
• “Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.” —Unknown Author
• “You make me happier than I ever thought I could be, and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” —Friends
• “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 all pain, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? —George Eliot
• “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” —Robert Quillen
• “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” —Pearl S. Buck
• “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” —Fawn Weaver
• “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” —William Lyon Phelps

The Ups and Downs of Marriage:

• “In a marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, and enabler rather than a reformer.” —Unknown Author
• “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…” —Barbara De Angelis
• “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” —Henry Ford
• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Brönte
• “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
• “When the darkness rolls in, I’ll be there through thick and thin.” —Hilary Duff
• “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
• "Because today, when I look into your eyes, my love for you only grows. It’s even stronger now. My love will never waver. And this I vow to you, today, and always and forever.” —One Tree Hill
• “There is no such thing as a perfect man or a perfect marriage. But the one I have is perfect for me.” —Fawn Weaver
• “Remember, we all stumble; every one of us. That is why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” —Emily Kimbrough
• “The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning…but rather as love grows and develops over time.” —Fawn Weaver
• “I wasn’t sure that love could survive everything we put it through, but you were. You were sure, you were always sure.” —Boy Meets World
• “Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.” —Nights in Rodanthe
• “Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.” —Darlene Schacht
• “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.” —Corinthians 13:7