Quotes About Affection

He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride: he wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him — Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse — It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

Qualunque ricordo di quelli che abbiamo amati in vita, ci diventa prezioso quand'essi sono morti.

No! I tell you, I have such faith in Linton's love, that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn't wish to retaliate.' I advised her to value him the more for his affection.

It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?

I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.  My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. 

He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.  And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.  Tush!  He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse.  It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?

It was a marvelous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this - I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be - that proves I love him better than myself.

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this - I pray every night that I may love after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be - that proves I love him better than myself.

pero el nunca llegará a saber cuánto le quiero, y no porque sea guapo, sino porque hay más de mi en él que en mí misma

You're all of life to me. Let me be a single breath of it for you. -Isabella to Heathcliff, "Wuthering Heights".

My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

To see her is a picture— To hear her is a tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To know her not—Affliction— To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the Sun Were shining in your Hand.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.

Till I loved I never liked enough.

Who loves you most, and loves you best, and thinks of you when others rest? 'Tis Emilie.

Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for you, but the words won't come, though the tears will, and I sit down disappointed. Yet, darling, you know it all-- then why do I seek to tell you? I do not know. In thinking of those I love, my reason is all gone from me, and I do fear sometimes that I must make a hospital for the hopelessly insane, and chain myself up there so I won't injure you.

For love is immortality.

Since I have no sweet flower to send you, I enclose my heart; a little one, sunburnt, half broken sometimes, yet close as the spaniel, to it's friends

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it.