Anniversary Quotes

“The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few months earlier. You will have survived an entire year without someone who was as important to you as life itself.”
― Bob Diets

“Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born
when you said, 'Hey.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“True and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems

“Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.”
― Joan Bauer, Thwonk

“Didn’t I stand there once,
white-knuckled, gripping the just-lit taper,
swearing I’d never go back?
And hadn’t you kissed the rain from my mouth?
And weren’t we gentle and awed and afraid,
knowing we’d stepped from the room of desire
into the further room of love?
And wasn’t it sacred, the sweetness
we licked from each other’s hands?
And were we not lovely, then, were we not
as lovely as thunder, and damp grass, and flame?”
― Cecilia Woloch

“There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are less valid and less real and less about a relationship than our own minds: Fear (of screwing up, of being left, of not being good enough), restlessness, resistance to growing up, PMS, not knowing how to live without drama, fearing that you're getting happy, and happiness is boring.

The thing that scared me the most was the knowledge that if I stayed, something was going to change, and that something was probably me. I didn't know what changed me would look like, or if I would like her more or less than I already did. Would I still recognize myself? Would I still be myself?”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

“My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone.

It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats.

I'm just being realistic.”
― Tracey Emin, Strangeland

“Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren’t what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it’s the here and now. It’s those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run”
― Ashleigh Slater

“An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies.”
― Fernando A. Torres

“But you are still you I'm still me
And we are still we”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“However, you forgot our anniversary date , but it does not matter because I know that you may have forgotten the date but you haven't forgotten my value in your life.”
― Shattered Girl

“An anniversary is a celebration of the triumph and tragedy of love.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Xuan and I had decided to take a trip together in honor of our one-thousand-day anniversary. We ate Korean barbecue, shared a decadent cake, and then drove three and a half hours to Yosemite. I’d never heard of such an occasion. But in Seoul, where Ji-Hoon was born and raised, there was almost a monthly holiday devoted to romance. We wore similar out- fits, which Xuan said was common for couples in Asian countries. Three years was a big deal, especially when we didn’t know how many more we’d have.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You

“It has taken me four years to figure this out.

If we live long enough, we all will experience this.

Don’t ever predetermine how you think that you should feel on an anniversary of a tragic event in your life, such as a death of a loved one, or on a holiday after such an event.

Each year starts out with 365 days, and I will be damned if I am giving up even one of them to misery.”
― John Passaro

“You can plant a tree to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion or a business success. Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“People don’t have anniversaries for the day they fall in love.”
“They should. I remember every day and every moment that was special with you. Love is fragile... a gift. And when you love someone, you should be the caretaker of their heart.”
“Loving you has been the greatest gift I’ve ever been given. You know that, right?”
Xuan nodded and then pulled me close to him as if to reply. The feel of his lips on my neck was like an electric shock, making the little hairs stand.
“Stay still or I’ll ruin your makeup,” he whispered in my ear.
“I don’t mind being fashionably late,” I suggested.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You

“my heart when I
stared at you
beat irregularly
and jagged”
― Lori Jenessa Nelson

“It’s the anniversary of the first day I realized I was madly
in love with you. That night, we went to your friend’s Halloween party. I remember the black dress you wore. You had feathery black angel wings attached to your back and glitter all over your body like you were a fairy from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
“I dressed as a fallen angel that year.”
“You were my angel. The most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You

“ “It’s our three month anniversary.”
Her eyes widened in panic. “Today? I thought … I was counting three months from—”
“Doesn’t matter.” I paused. “Or I guess it does or we’ll keep getting confused. Can we use today—three months back, I mean?”
She smiled. “We can … if you don’t mind getting your gift late.”
“I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.”
She blushed and lifted on her tiptoes to kiss me. “You will. For as long as you want them.”
Which was pretty much the best present she could give me”
― Kelley Armstrong, Belonging

“Marriage is the beginning of an everlasting melody of love.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The Key to a successful and lasting Marriage Relationship is friendship”
― Manuel Corazzari

“To ban joviality on the anniversary of someone's death is as absurd as banning smiling at another person as you pass them on the street.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Wedding Anniversity: A yearly event held in a life-long institution where the goal is not to graduate but to avoid being expelled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The anniversary of our death, we do it only by the others. (L'anniversaire de notre mort, - On ne le fête que par les autres.)”
― Charles de Leusse

“- 'I just... I was thinking of Achilles. It's our anniversarý tomorrow, and I'd really like to get him a present. Maybe I could sneak out tonight and be back in time for... for Patrick's visit tomorrow.'
- 'Ohh, what are you going to get him?'
Hell. This was torture in itself.
- 'A new hammer. One with my name engraved on the side.' - Sure. why not?
She sighed happily.
- 'That's a cute idea!”
― Emma Winters, Equal Parts

“For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Remember when we took that trip to Puglia?"
He knows that I do. We'd gone for our anniversary a few years ago. We had stayed on the top floor of a small hotel impossibly cantilevered over an expanse of rocky shore. We'd eaten burrata, a Pugliese specialty, every morning for breakfast, with a slab of bread- arguably the best in Italy, still warm from baking overnight in the dying embers of the ancient oven. The cheese would arrive each morning on a tray outside our room, still warm, and wrapped in the customary thick blade of grass, swollen like a ripe piece of fruit.”
― Meredith Mileti, Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses

“I WAS NOT BORN TO TAKE YOU TO THE OTHER END OF LIFE. IT'S A CHANCE THAT WE ARE TOGETHER ON THIS JOURNEY.

SO MUCH THAT IS. DON'T MULL OVER WHAT IS NOT.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor