quotations about affection
He longed for her more than he could say. It was a wonderful thing to be able to truly want someone like this--the feeling was so real, so overpowering. He hadn't felt this way in ages. Maybe he never had before. Not that everything about it was wonderful: his chest ached, he found it hard to breathe, and a fear, a dark oscillation, had hold of him. But now even that kind of ache had become an important part of the affection he felt. He didn't want to let that feeling slip from his grasp. Once lost, he might never happen across that warmth again. If he had to lose it, he would rather lose himself.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.
KIM THÚY
Ru
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Romance and Reality
Fair encounter of two most rare affections!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest
My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk
She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection.
SHERRY THOMAS
Not Quite a Husband
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
LEIGH HUNT
Table-Talk
He laughed and came forward impulsively to kiss her--his affection a potent thing, a flourish of light.
SANDRA NEWMAN
The Heavens
When affection only speaks,
Truth is not always there.
THOMAS MIDDLETON
The Old Law
It's affection always
You're gonna see it someday
My attention's on you
Even if it's not what you need
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX
"Affection"
What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
I never heard
Of any true affection but 'twas nipped.
THOMAS MIDDLETON
Blurt, Master Constable
The lights began to dim; Cosima reached back for my hand. Darkness always prompts her affection.
BARRY YOURGRAU
The Sadness of Sex
She stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.
CHARLES DICKENS
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
When I am walking down the street to meet him and I know that I have come into his view, and his eyes, as I approach, are giving off sparks of both hunger and affection, the two fighting it out like cats in his pupils, I feel that I would do anything to have that look cast upon me for the rest of my days.
CARLENE BAUER
Frances and Bernard
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
BRENÉ BROWN
The Gifts of Imperfection
You've got to become human before the physical cravings are distinguishable from affections--just as you have to become spiritual before affections are distinguishable from charity.
C.S. LEWIS
That Hideous Strength
Affection bends the judgment to her ply.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Inferno
One in whose heart Affection had no root.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Joan of Arc