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Quotes About Affection

I'm not jealous of your feelings for people. But I am jealous of people's feelings for you. [...] When you're there, I know quite well our love is the truest; but from afar I find it a burden to see you trailing round in the other hearts.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Jealousy is not contemptible real love has a beak and claws.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I gave a weak smile; he came close and put an arm around my shoulders; I clung to him and wept quietly. The warm physical pleasure of tears running down my cheek. What a relief! It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Não é mais amor: sou apenas um hábito.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
C'est si fatigant de détester quelqu'un qu'on aime.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I weep, therefore I love
~ Simone de Beauvoir
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
~ Simone Weil
Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance that is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other cannot be separated.
~ Simone Weil
Parmi les êtres humains, on ne reconnait pleinement l'existence que de ceux qu'on aime. La croyance à l'existence d'autres êtres humains comme tels est amour.
~ Simone Weil
you cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot coexist in the same heart
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
The Father of Glory does not lurk behind His Son with sinister intent to do us ill, restrained only by the cruel and bloody sacrifice His Son has made! No, a thousand times no! The Father loves us in the love of the Son and the love of the Spirit (John 16:27).
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
~ Sinclair Lewis
has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?
~ Siobhan Dowd
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.
~ Sir Author Conan Doyle
There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and early affection was repulsed, or betrayed, or became abortive through opposing circumstances. It is these little passages of secret history, which leave a tinge of romance in every bosom, scarce permitting us, even in the most busy or advanced period of life, to listen with total indifference to a tale of true love.
~ Sir Walter Scott
A moment of peril is often also a moment of kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those, which at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I tell thee, proud Templar, that not in thy fiercest battles hast thou displayed more of thy vaunted courage than has been shown by woman when called upon to suffer by affection or duty.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Quand on aime, l'amour vous donne une force extraordinaire. Et rien ne vous fait plus peur. On ne se soucie que de la personne aimée.
~ Sonia Gandhi
His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.
~ Sophie Jordan
You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.
~ Sophie Jordan
I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.
~ Sophie Kinsella
What is love? No one knows what love is, exactly. No one can define it. No one can prove it.
~ Sophie Kinsella