Here is a list of beautiful and short quotes about weddings and marriage! If you’re looking for Instagram captions, inspiration for cards or any sort of love-related project, look no further!
These quotes are from famous authors, poets, and more. You may also want to check out my list of 50 Famous Wedding Quotes for more inspiration. Have fun and happy reading!
- “Give all to love; obey thy heart.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love’s beginning.” – Thomas Campbell
3. “But did thee feel the earth move?” – Ernest Hemingway
4. “Familiar acts are beautiful through love.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
6. “Loves alters not with time’s brief hours and weeks, but bears it out ever to the edge of doom.” – William Shakespeare
7. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
8. “One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.” – Alexander Bogomoletz
9. “You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.” – William Blake
10. “All human activity is prompted by desire.” – Bertrand Russell
11. “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” – Emily Dickinson
12. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte
13. “Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.” – Sue Townsend
14. “I don’t want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
15. “You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss.” – Herman Hupfield
16. “Great loves too must be endured.” – Coco Chanel
17. “Honor the ocean of love.” – George de Bennville
18. “My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.” – Daisy Ashford
19. “Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.” – Emily Dickinson
20. “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
21. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
22. “Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.” – Christopher Marlowe
23. “To be in love is to surpass oneself.” – Oscar Wilde
24. “Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.” – John Lyly
25. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
26. “When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” – Elizabeth Bowen
27. “For those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry Van Dyke
28. “I clasp thy waist; I feel thy bosom’s beat. O, kiss me into faintness, sweet and dim.” -Alexander Smith
29. “Came but for friendship, and took away love.” – Thomas Moore
30. “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Kahlil Gibran
31. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
32. “Because of deep love, one is courageous.” – Lao-Tzu
33. “Love is a choice – not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.” – Carter Heyward
34. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
36. “Happiness [is] only real when shared” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
37. “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
38. “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.” ― Lorrie Moore
39. “If I get married, I want to be very married.” ― Audrey Hepburn
40. “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
41. “A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.” ― Anne Lamott, Joe Jones
42. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.” ― Leo Tolstoy
43. “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” ― Ogden Nash
44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it.” ― John Steinbeck
45. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
46. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer
47. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
48. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– Andre Marois
49. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
50. “When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.” – Paulo Coelho
