I love a good quote! But it’s not always easy finding the right one to use for your special day.
I thought I’d create a great list of amazing quotes for you to consider using for your Virginia weddings, whether in readings, or on favors, signs, or something else unique.
Hopefully some of these will ring true for you!
Elizabeth Gilbert
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
Maya Angelou
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.”
Dr. Seuss
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Victor Hugo
“What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“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.”
Maya Angelou
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Truth Devour, Unrequited
“Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“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.”
Alfred Tennyson
“If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
George Eliot
“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 silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
Robert Fulghum, True Love
“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.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Plato
“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.”
When Harry Met Sally
“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.”
Judy Garland
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Lauren Bacall
“How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That’s what love does, it changes everything.”
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
Cleo Wade
“Love is the thing that is always having the last word—even when those words are ‘I’m sorry,’ or ‘Forgive me,’ or ‘I love you no matter what.’”
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
