120 Engagement Quotes for You and Your Future Spouse

Whether you and your partner have been together for a few years or a decade, getting engaged is a momentous occasion. Once the question has been popped—either by or to you—you'll probably want to tell everyone you know about this exciting change to your relationship status. Today, the most efficient way to get the word out to all of your family members and friends is to post the happy news on social media. If you want to take an old-school approach, mailing an announcement card in also an option. (Whichever path you take, though, you'll want to share the good news with your closest loved ones in person! No one wants to find out that their child, sibling, or best friend got engaged when opening up the Instagram app!)

So, what should your announcement—on social media or in mailed form—say? Though something short and sweet like "We're engaged!" certainly works, our editors love the idea of making your announcement a little more meaningful. If you're struggling to find the right words to capture the magnitude of this moment, we're here to help: Ahead, we rounded up 113 love quotes that are particularly apt for newly-engaged duos. Whether you want to draw inspiration from your favorite television show or movie, a famous author, or a beloved song, you'll find tons of sweet, meaningful choices here.

Romantic Engagement Quotes

1. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
2. "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
3. "Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground." — Darlene Schach
4. "It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can’t remember how you lived without them." — Anurag Prakash Ray
5. "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." — Simone Signoret
6. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." — Mignon McLaughlin
7. "You don’t marry the person you can live with, you marry the person you can’t live without." — Unknown
8. "The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised." — Fawn Weaver
9. "Engagement marks the end of a whirlwind romance and beginning of an eternal love story." — Rajeev Ranjan
10. “We must have been soulmates in the past for we just clicked so easily to be engaged so fast.” — Anonymous
11. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”— Phyllis Diller
12. "My whole heart for my whole life." — French Proverb
13. "I have found the one my soul loves." — Song of Songs 3:4
14. “A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.” — African Proverb
15. "You see, there is not much that I want to share with you but my love that is true." ― Anonymous
16. "Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones
17. "I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me." — Kamand Kojouri
18. "To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott
19. “I would bend my knee a million times to stand by you.” — Jordan Kimball
20. “We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love.” — Gene Perret
21. “The definition of a good marriage is that each person thinks they got the better.” — Ina Garten

Engagement Quotes From Famous Poets and Authors

1. "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 that when I fall asleep your eyes close." — Pablo Neruda
2. "People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love." — Dr. Seuss
3. "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — J. R. R. Tolkien
4. "Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end." — Rumi
5. "Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls." — Kahlil Gibran
6. "Love who you want to love. Life is too short to do anything else." – R.M. Drake
7. "If I had a flower for every time thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
8. ”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
9. "I love her and it is the beginning of everything." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. "The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." — Rumi
11. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." – Hermann Hesse
12. "I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. "Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." — Dante Alighieri
    
14. "How beautiful it is to know they love you. To feel it everyday without asking how they feel." – R.M. Drake
15. “Ever since time began, people have recognized their true love by the light in their eyes.” – Paulo Coelho

Engagement Quotes From Historical Figures

1. "When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again." — Albert Einstein
2. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
3. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back." — Plato 
4. "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
5. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." — Sophocles
   
6. “My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” — Elizabeth Taylor
7. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
8. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." — Judy Garland
9. "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." — Princess Diana
10. "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand." — Mother Teresa
11. "Love is the flower you've got to let grow." — John Lennon

Engagement Quotes From Literature

1. "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." — Soul Shattering Poetry by Maya Angelou
2. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." — A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
3. "I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.” — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. "Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips." — Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. "And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you." — The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White
6. "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." — The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. "Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." — You Are My Sun, My Moon, And All My Stars by E.E. Cummings
8. “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” — The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
9. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." — Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
10. “That was the starting and ending point in life: love. The journey was everything in between.” — The Women by Kristin Hannah
11. "Wherever you are is my home, my only home." — Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
12. "Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity." — Unrequited by Truth Devour
13. "My heart is, and always will be, yours." — Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
14. "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." — Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
15. "You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever." — Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 
16. “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” — Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
17. "So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard, and we're gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day." — The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
18. "No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever." — Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer 
19. "Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it." — Jazz by Toni Morrison
20. “Give a man a finger; he’ll put a wedding ring on it!” — The New Land by Ljupka Cvetanova
21. “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.” — Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
22. "Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you." — An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 
    
23. "We loved with a love that was more than a love." — Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
24. “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” — The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
25. "You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling." — The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
26. “Don’t you think there are certain people who speak to your soul? Who inhabit you.” — The Beach at Summerly by Beatriz Williams

Engagement Quotes From Television and Films

1. "You are, and always have been, my dream." — The Notebook 
2. “The only thing that matters is that you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way." — Chandler Bing, Friends
3. "I love you, in a really really big, pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you." — Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
4. "If soulmates do exist, they’re not found. They’re made." — Michael, The Good Place
5. “I love you and I like you.” — Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
6. "Some people are worth melting for." — Olaf, Frozen 
7. "I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.” — Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
8. “One thing that will make you give up on everything you thought you know, every instinct, ever rational calculation. Love.” — Jim Halpert, The Office
9. "Today I become accountable to someone other than myself. Today I become accountable to you, to our future, to all the possibilities that our marriage has to offer. Together, no matter what happens, I'll be ready for anything, for everything to take on life, to take on love, to take on possibility and responsibility. Today, our life together begins, and I, for one, can't wait." — Alex Karev, Grey's Anatomy
10. “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.” — When Harry Met Sally
11. “Let me share this whole new world with you.” — Aladdin
12. "You're what I love," Andy Dwyer, Parks and Recreation
13. "You're everything. I love you, and I'm not going to stop loving you. I can't live without you. I don't want to live without you, and I'm going to do everything in my power to prove it." — Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy
14. “I thought this was going to be the most difficult thing I was ever going to have to do, but when I saw you walking down that aisle I realized how simple it is. I love you. Any surprise that comes along the way is okay because I will always love you.” — Chandler Bing, Friends
15. “That moment when you kiss someone, and everything around you becomes hazy, and the only thing in focus is you and this person, and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life.” — Never Been Kissed
16. “When you’re a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. My kids are gonna be right about that.” — Pam Beesly, The Office
17. "You complete me." — Jerry Maguire 
18. "If this I am sure: you are my partner, my lover, my very best friend, my heart. My heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this: I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands; I promise you me." — Preston Burke, Grey's Anatomy
19. “This is the miracle that I’ve been dreaming of. So, this is love.” — Cinderella
20. "If you don't believe in love, what's the point of living?" — Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
21. "I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad. All I wanna do is grow old with you." — The Wedding Singer

Engagement Quotes From Songs

1. "I've been all around the world/Marching to the beat of a different drum/But just lately I have realized/Baby, the best is yet to come" — "Someone Like You" by Van Morrison  
2. "You are the best thing that's ever been mine" — "Mine" by Taylor Swift
3. "'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love" — "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran
4. "You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess/It's a love story, baby, just say, 'Yes'"— "Love Story" by Taylor Swift
5. “And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times/It's you, it's you, you make me sing/You're every line, you're every word, you're everything" — "Everything" by Michael Bublé
6. "I could make you happy, make your dreams come true/Nothing that I wouldn't do/Go to the ends of the Earth for you/To make you feel my love." — "To Make You Feel My Love" by Bob Dylan
7. "You're my end and my beginning" — "All of Me" by John Legend
8. “I feel like this is the beginning, though I’ve loved you for a million years” — "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" by Stevie Wonder
9. “Your kisses taste the sweetest with mine/And I'll be right here with ya 'til the end of time” — "Peaches" by Justin Bieber
10. “Gee I really love you/And we're gonna get married/Going to the chapel of love” — "Going to the Chapel" by The Dixie Cups
11. "Wherever you stray/I follow/I'm begging for you to take my hand/Wreck my plans" — "Willow" by Taylor Swift
12. "A hundred and five is the number that comes to my head/When I think of all the years I wanna be with you/Wake up every morning with you in my bed/That's precisely what I plan to do" — "Marry Me" by Jason Derulo
13. “We should get married/Let's stop holding back on this and let's get carried away” — "Mine" by Beyoncé
14. “Forty days and forty nights/I waited for a girl like you to come and save my life" — "Out of My League" by Fitz and the Tantrums
15. "But as long as there are stars above you/You never need to doubt it/I'll make you so sure about it/God only knows what I'd be without you" — "God Only Knows" by John Legend and Cynthia Erivo
16. "Take my hand, take my whole life, too/For I can't help falling in love with you” — "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley
17. “How do you do it, you got me losing every breath/What did you give me to make my heart beat out my chest?” — "Latch" by Disclosure
18. "Can we just feel this way together 'til the end of all time/Can I just spend my life with you" — "Spend My Life With You" by Tamia and Eric Benet
19. “Meet me in the altar in your white dress/We ain't getting no younger, we might as well do it” — "Let's Get Married" by Jagged Edge
20. “Looks like we made it/Look how far we've come, my baby/We mighta took the long way/We knew we'd get there someday" — "You're Still the One" by Shania Twain
21. “Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice/Who cares baby, I think I wanna marry you” — "Marry You" by Bruno Mars
22. "So I take your hand and ask you/Have you made plans for the rest of your life?" — "The Rest of Our Life" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
23. “We are not perfect/We learn from our mistakes/And as long as it takes/I will prove my love to you” — "I Choose You" by Sara Bareilles
24. “I'll take this chance, so call me blind/I've been waiting all my life/Please don't scar this young heart/Just take my hand" — "I Was Made for Loving You" by Tori Kelly
25. "I'm running out of ways to make you see/I want you to stay here beside me/I won't be ok and I won't pretend I am/So just tell me today and take my hand" — "Just Say Yes" by Snow Patrol
26. "I've got a ways to go on this ride/But I got a hand to hold that fits just right/You make me laugh, you make me high,/You make me wanna hold on tight/'Cause who I am with you is who I really wanna be" — "Who I Am With You" by Chris Young