Affection Quotes - Page 9

• We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Views, Quality, Divergent

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.9, Vintage

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• Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

  Alain de Botton

  Achievement, Doe, Mature

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.77, Vintage

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• You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses--you might need them someday. And when anyof you--men and women--are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself--and with your friend--about love and the expression of it's symbols.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Heart, Kissing, Men

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• ...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

  Nora Roberts

  Past, Lust, Gone

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.153, Penguin

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• With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

  S.J. Watson

  Balance, Tests, Disappointing

  S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.351, Random House

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• Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

  John Donne

  Stars, Princess, Fall

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Lying, Men, Deceit

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• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

  Jane Austen

  Gratitude, Attachment, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.371, Waking Lion Press

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• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Simple, Mind, Taste

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Way, Sometimes

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• I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Curves, Shapes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Flower, Fall, Character

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• Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hurt, Believe, Play

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi (2000). “The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce”, p.15, Ohio State University Press

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• I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either.

  William Goldman

  Dying, Answers, Want

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.221, A&C Black

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• what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.

  Lauren Kate

  Simple, What If, Arms

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Lauren Kate: Fallen & Torment”, p.83, Random House

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• Oh, leave it,” said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. “She’s annexed my plan!” “Will,” Tessa said firmly. “Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?” Will pointed a finger at her. “That,” he said. “The second one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon Pox, Kicking, Ankles

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.872, Simon and Schuster

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• We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Wise, Finding Love, Looks

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• Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Teen Whisperer" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 9 & 16, 2014.

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• People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Melting, World

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, This World

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• You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

  John Green

  Romantic, Distance, Effort

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.74, Penguin

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• When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Often Is, Giving

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• For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Renewal, Realising

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• Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Difficult, Passion And Purity

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.34, Revell

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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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