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20 Quotes From Literature That Are Perfect for Your Wedding Day

20 Quotes From Literature That Are Perfect for Your Wedding Day

Are you looking for some quotes to use on your wedding day? From the invitations to your vows, there are lots of opportunities to share words that express how you feel about one another. The quotes you choose should be a reflection of who you are as a couple.

If either of you is a fan of literature, using words from works of literature is a perfect choice! Here are 20 of our favorite love quotes from famous writers. 

  1. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -Aristotle, philosopher
  2. "I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." -E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
  3. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss, author
  4. "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." -Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  5. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give-which is everything." -Katharine Hepburn, actress
  6. 'Two hearts in love need no words.' -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet
  7. "True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, in the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding." -Ellen G. White, Christian pioneer and American author
  8. "I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you.'" -William Shakespeare, Henry V (Act 5, Scene 2)
  9. "True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can be denied where it does." -Torquato Tasso, Italian poet
  10. "True love stories never have endings." -Richard Bach, American writer
  11. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination." -Voltaire, French writer and philosopher
  12. "To live without loving is to not really live." -Molière, French playwright
  13. "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  14. "I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart." -Alice Walker, poet and novelist
  15. "I ask you to pass through life at my side-to be my second self, and best earthly companion." -Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  16. "Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return, you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars" -E.E. Cummings, #38
  17. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato, Symposium
  18. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France, French writer
  19. "…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light." -Phoebe Cary, American poet
  20. "I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." -E.M. Forster, A Room With a View