Is there anything more romantic than cuddling with your honey and watching a good movie? Not only that, but romantic movies can be a great source of inspiration when you’re planning a wedding and you keep racking your brain trying to come up with the perfect wedding vows. And they can also be a great reminder of what marriage and relationships are really about when you’re trying to reconnect with your partner after a big fight.
To me, the best movie quotes about love and marriage aren’t just corny and sweet, but really speak to the complex emotions, pain, and vulnerability that are needed for a healthy relationship to thrive. So without further ado, below are some of the most romantic, powerful, and even funny quotes about marriage from movies that really hit the nail on the head.
On being together forever:
“Let me ask you one thing. Do you think—after we’ve dried off, after we’ve spent lots more time together—you might agree not to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?”
– Four Weddings and a Funeral
On when you’re destined to be together:
“It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together.”
– Serendipity
On the power of love:
“I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.”
– Pocahontas
On finding joy in the journey:
“You are my greatest adventure.”
– The Incredibles
On being there no matter the circumstance:
“I vow to fiercely love you in all your form, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other.”
– The Vow
On the challenges of love:
“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
– The Notebook
On the messiness of being in love:
“I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice, it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit.”
– Moonstruck
On the things that makes us fall:
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together.. and I knew it!”
– Sleepless in Seattle
On meeting the right person:
“Sometimes the things you want the most don’t happen and what you least expect happens. I don’t know – you meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.”
– Love & Other Drugs
On finding the one that completes you:
“You’re my air.”
– Brown Sugar
On staying together through the storm:
“I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna wanna get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you’re the only one for me.”
– Runaway Bride
On what makes us human:
“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
– Dead Poets Society
On knowing that you’ve found the one:
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I’d ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like magic.”
– Sleepless in Seattle
On the braveness of being in love:
“At best, it’s a happy delusion—these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they’re about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don’t think it’s conservative or delusional. I think it’s radical and courageous and very romantic.”
– Frida
On resilient love:
“Always.”
– Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Marriage is not always easy, but nothing worth it ever is. It’s true that romantic movies are often filled with grand gestures and unrealistic relationships that look nothing like the real deal. But sometimes, they also offer a tremendous amount of wisdom condensed in a single line or two. Hopefully you enjoyed these romantic quotes and found a little bit of your relationship in each one of them. Visit https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/marriage/ for more marriage advice.
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