Affection Quotes

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

~ R.l. Lafevers

That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When the wind blows in your face,when you feel you are losing your head,when the going gets tough,and when all else fails,look inside you,you are not alone.

~ Malak El Halabi

consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,” he says, but “Flaubert’s objectivity is charged with irritability and Tolstoy’s with affection. For Flaubert everyone and everything is somehow at fault. For Tolstoy everyone and everything has a saving grace.”“By loving people without cause, he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.” It would be hard to find a more succinct description of the chief work of the Holy Spirit in the human heart.

~ Lionel Trilling

Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way

~ David Bresler

Be kind to all pets and animals because they will be kind back to you.

~ J. Wesley Porter

How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?

~ Paula Stokes

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they've lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.

~ Anna Broadway

If not love, what?

~ Rob Liano

Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.

~ Amanda Mosher

Over-thinking, a devouring monster,entice, only the inky reflections;there's a pleasure you come by,from this anomalous encounter;kills your desire, for human affection.

~ Kashish Gurung

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

~ John Piper

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

~ Marty Rubin

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire waxes and wanes, and affection can be felt without long-standing commitment. But 'You matter to me' means that the long haul is accepted, even willingly taken on: I will carry you, hold you and applaud you, from here on in. Dependability: I will be here to take care of you. And when you are gone, I will be here to remember you.

~ Nina Sankovitch

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.

~ James Joyce

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

~ Sonya Hartnett

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

~ Walt Whitman

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

~ Auliq Ice

Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, soothing breath. Only Sumire could do that for me.

~ Haruki Murakami

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

Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not necessarily mean a damn thing to the person you are giving it to. Love can corner you. When you intrude on someone with your affection, you might find yourself trying to knock a strong door down with your shoulder. Either you break the door or you break yourself. Something almost always gets broken. In my mind it runs like this: I’m going to like you, whether you like it or not. I’ll wear you down until you relent and swallow this big lie I have for you. Don’t move. Don’t live. I love you.

~ Henry Rollins

The thing is that when you find true love.... it lives on.No matter if you two seperate but the love stays alive; broken, gasping for breath, love and affection, but in agony, waiting for everything to end. But Sadly, It lives on... in memories and thought's.

~ Alamvusha

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

~ Mary E. Demuth

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

~ Jerry Spinelli

...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...

~ Michael Kelahan

Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

~ Jerry Spinelli

....because people die but their memories not.

~ M.h. Rakib

Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal