quotations about affection
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
ANNA JAMESON
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
W.H. AUDEN
"The More Loving One"
The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.
CARLO ROVELLI
L'ordine del tempo
For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Vanity Fair
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
Death, distance, and time, shall each one of them dig graves for your affections.
DONALD GRANT MITCHELL
Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
There are wonders in true affection: it is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles; wherein two so become one, as they both become two.
THOMAS BROWNE
Religio Medici
The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.
J.C. RYLE
A Call to Prayer
Nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Evangeline
'Tis sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together.
LAURENCE STERN
A Sentimental Journey
I returned
With this ill news, and we sat sad together
Solacing our despondency with tears
Of such affection and unbroken faith
As temper life's worst bitterness.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Cenci
In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
Ariel
All our "most sacred affections" are merely prosaic habit.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living
The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
And that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever--
GEORGE SAUNDERS
Tenth of December
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish--all duties even.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
It is the privilege of affection to see a friend in all the situations of his soul.
EMILIE DU CHÂTALET
letter to Louis Francois Armand Du Plessis, June 15, 1735
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
APOSTLE PAUL
Colossians 3:2