quotations about affection
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
So you take physical affection when you can get it, almost feeling guilty when you do. You might sleep with someone just to get to the cuddling part, knowing full well that if cuddling had been on the table, you might not have even slept with them to begin with.
LANE MOORE
How to Be Alone
Happy is the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honour.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Enchiridion
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
JENNIFER HAIGH
The Condition
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Wives and Daughters
And keep you in the rear of your affection.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert.
LORD BYRON
Childe Harold
He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.
SARAH DESSEN
The Truth About Forever
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
CHARLES DICKENS
Dombey and Son
There is in life no blessing like affection:
It soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues,
And bringeth down to earth its native heaven.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides)
Though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them.
ANNE BRONTË
Agnes Grey
Affection is a coal that must be cool'd;
Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Venus and Adonis