AFFECTION QUOTES II

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


Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Romance and Reality


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


My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It


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


I never heard
Of any true affection but 'twas nipped.

THOMAS MIDDLETON

Blurt, Master Constable


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


She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection.

SHERRY THOMAS

Not Quite a Husband


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


Fair encounter of two most rare affections!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Tempest


When affection only speaks,
Truth is not always there.

THOMAS MIDDLETON

The Old Law


Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

LEIGH HUNT

Table-Talk


The lights began to dim; Cosima reached back for my hand. Darkness always prompts her affection.

BARRY YOURGRAU

The Sadness of Sex


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"


He laughed and came forward impulsively to kiss her--his affection a potent thing, a flourish of light.

SANDRA NEWMAN

The Heavens


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


Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

EDMUND SPENSER

The Faerie Queene


What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again?

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays


One in whose heart Affection had no root.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

Joan of Arc


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