Quotes About Attachment

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided.

His devotion is complete; he is beginning to sense the confusion that arises from the first fears of what life would be like without her. He knows there can be such a thing, but like the answer to a difficult problem, he cannot imagine it.

To understand everything is to love nothing

I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And he's my country.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.

I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.

I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody.

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin 'freely'- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.

The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!