62 Sweet Anniversary Quotes For The One You Love

It's time to get sappy in the name of celebrating your anniversary.

There is no better way to celebrate another milestone than with the perfect anniversary quote to share. Or let's be honest, they're great captions for a lovey-dovey social media post of your best #nofilter photo together.

Anniversary quotes can be a good reminder of why you picked your partner, make you laugh out loud, or be an ode to the commitment it takes for a successful relationship. Here are a few favorites.

Related: What To Write In An Anniversary Card To Show How Much You Care

Short Anniversary Quotes

• “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag

• “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” – N.R. Hart

• “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia

• “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

• “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen

• “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell

• "I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars." – J. M. Storm

• “Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide.” – Sanober Khan

• “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coehlo
  

• “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

• “All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney

• “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch

• “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

• “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

• “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.“ – Henry Wadsworth
  

Funny Anniversary Quotes

• “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” – Lucille Ball

• "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year." – Paul Sweeney

• “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

• “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” – Benjamin Franklin

• “Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr
  

Religious Anniversary Quotes

• "Do everything in love." – Corinthians 16:14

• "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church." – Ephesians 5:25-29

• “Great marriages don’t happen by luck or by accident. They are the result of a consistent investment of time, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, affection, prayer, mutual respect, and a rock-solid commitment between a husband and a wife.” – Dave Willis

• "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs." – 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

• "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." – Genesis 2:24

• "Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves." – Romans 12:10

• “Marriage is sharing your life with your best friend, enjoying the journey along the way, and arriving at every destination together.”  – Fawn Weaver

• "There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don't understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman." – Proverbs 30:18-19

• "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." – Corinthians 13:13

• "You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you." – Song of Solomon 4:7
  

Romantic Anniversary Quotes

• “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

• “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green

• “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 that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda

• “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born—you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”― E. E. Cummings

• "You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss

• ”When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.” – Joey W. Hill

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

• "So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me. Everyday." – Nicholas Sparks

• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

• "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." – A. A. Milne

• “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim

• “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. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true” – Patsy Cline

• “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” — Rabindranath Tagore
  

Anniversary Wishes For Your Husband

• “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis

• “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo

• “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

• "You smiled, you smiled/Oh, and then the spell was cast/And here we are in Heaven/For you are mine at last" – Etta James, At Last

• "Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same." – Emily Bronte

• “I love you more than anything in the world combined.” – Stephanie Meyer

• “I've known it from the moment that we met/no doubt in my mind where you belong.” – Adele, Make You Feel My Love
  

Anniversary Wishes For Your Wife

• “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

• ”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can’t help falling in love with you.” – Elvis Presley, Can’t Help Falling In Love

• “You make me want to be a better man.” – As Good As It Gets

• “I love you. You…you complete me.” — Jerry Maguire

• “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

• “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall

• "I can hear her heartbeat for a thousand miles/and the heavens open every time she smiles..." – Van Morrison, Crazy Love

• "I said I love you, that’s forever.” – Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are

• "We loved with a love that was more than love." – Edgar Allen Poe
  
  

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