William Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet may be over 400 years old, but that doesn’t make it any less relevant.
Even if your love story isn’t quite as drama-ridden as the one in the famous play, it can certainly feel like it is.
We’ve collected 24 of the play’s best quotes to use as your next Instagram captions, from swoon-worthy crush moments to dramatic goodbyes.
For when you’re done playing it cool:
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”
-Juliet
For when you can’t get your crush off your mind, and it’s starting to get a little old:
“O teach me how I should forget to think.”
-Romeo
For feeling like you’re through with dating for a while:
“Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it.”
-Benvolio
(Romeo + Juliet via 20th Century Fox)
For the selfie that took 10 tries but looks effortless:
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”
-Romeo
For that pic of the cutie who always manages to add sunshine to your days:
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?”
-Romeo
For enjoying a bouquet of roses:
“That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”
-Juliet
For when you’re overthinking what a name or label really means:
“What’s in a name?”
-Juliet
For when you’re counting down the hours until you see them:
“Come, gentle night.”
-Juliet
For the most flattering pic of your gorgeous S.O.:
“I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
-Romeo
For feeling like everything is working against your relationship:
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
-The Prince
(Hey Arnold! via Nickelodeon)
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For when the good times feel almost too good to last:
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
-Friar Laurence
For the group pic after drama you had nothing to do with:
“A plague o’ both your houses!”
-Mercutio
For acting totally contrary to your zodiac sign:
“I defy you, stars.”
-Romeo
For pretending everything is fine, despite the drama:
“A fool’s paradise.”
-Nurse
For crushing on someone you really wish you weren’t:
“My only love sprung from my only hate!”
-Juliet
(Romeo and Juliet via Paramount Pictures)
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For when a new relationship is moving a little too fast:
“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
-Friar Laurence
For when your feelings weigh you down more than usual:
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.”
-Romeo
For the sad but moving shot of you saying goodbye until next time to someone you care about:
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
-Juliet
For the pic that proves no distance is going to stop you:
“Stony limits cannot hold love out.”
-Romeo
For when you’re a little jealous of everyone who gets to be near your person:
“I would I were thy bird.”
-Juliet
For when you can’t stop talking about the wild feelings you’re having:
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
-Romeo
For when everything goes wrong and you’re blaming the universe:
“O, I am fortune’s fool!”
-Romeo
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For when you’re being dramatic and you know it:
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
-Mercutio
For the sweetest goodbye kiss caption:
“Thus with a kiss I die.”
-Romeo
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