Young love-making, that gossamer web! The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

George Eliot · The narrator on Lydgate and Rosamond falling in love in Middlemarch, chapter 36, 1871.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.

George Eliot · To her friend Georgiana Burne-Jones, in a letter of May 1875.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain?

George Eliot · The narrator after Adam and Dinah agree never to part; the sentence read at weddings goes on "to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

George Eliot · Dorothea Brooke's question in the novel; George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.

More Love Quotes

Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.

A short anniversary toast for a couple that never got over each other.

Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.

The four beat card rhyme that shows up on anniversary gifts everywhere; no author has ever been found.

Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.

A widely shared anniversary line with no known author.

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“Young love-making, that gossamer web! The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.”

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain?”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

“Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.”

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”

“Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.”