Quotes About Affection

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.

When acted upon, hunger is a powerful emotion that is both exploitive and destructive to others. People mistakenly identify this desperate feeling with love and think of this primal longing as genuine affection.

Early in their lives they learned to distrust positive verbal expressions and even physical affection, because more often than not these feelings covertly expressed their parents' need and desperation.

Many children do not feel love for their parents either. After they have been damaged in their early years, they tend to have a self-centered, exploitive interest but no real feeling for their parents as people. Because their original affectionate feeling toward their parents was rejected, they become withholding and inward.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Friendship, affection, trust—these are the things that, long before people signed contracts, long before they wrote down laws, held human societies together.

No tendremos nunca contacto sexual. Para hacer más duradero nuestro amor, refrenaremos el deseo, y tampoco la besaré en la boca, sino en la mano.

Y sin embargo, yo necesito amar a alguien, darme forzosamente a alguien.

It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable.

Y qué amor puede sostenerse mucho tiempo si a una no la besan en la boca?

La relación entre el padre y el hijo es curiosa. El coronel, eso se nota de inmediato, ama a su hijo por encima de sus deberes como militar, un amor que naturalmente no es correspondido, aún le falta mucho al hijo para comprender al padre, para comprender la soledad, el triste destino al que todos los seres están abocados.

The thing was, I didn't love him anymore. You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a whole poetry movement.

Antes de salir la miraba, durante unos segundos, abandonada entre las sábanas, y a veces se sentía tan lleno de amor que se hubiera puesto a llorar ahí mismo.

Le parole sono doni, sono semi da mandare, perché sono semi buoni, a chi noi vogliamo amare.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

They say your muscles have memory. Once you've trained your arms to swing a tennis racket or your legs to ride a bike, you can quit for a while - years even - and all it takes is picking up a racket or jumping on a bike again and your muscles remember what to do. They snap right back to performing the way you taught them. The heart is a muscle, too. And I've been training mine since I was a kid to fall in love with one particular person.

Mine," he said. Grabbed at a passing thought. "Love you. Marry me.

You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

Love is more than bedding, boy. If love doesn't come first and linger after, if love can't wait and endure disappointment and separation, then it's not love. Love doesn't require bedding to make it true. It doesn't even demand day-to-day contact. I know this because I have known love, many kinds of love, and amongst them, I've know what I felt for you.

But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity.

Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?

Hold the cat. You'll feel better. I don't think so. He rubbed against my leg insistently. Hold the cat. I don't want to hold the cat. He reared up suddenly on his hind legs, and hooked his vicious little front claws into both flesh and leggings. Don't talk back! Pick up the cat.