Quotes About Affection

I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

He raised her, and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I have never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.

I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses; I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.

El ser humano perfecto debe conservar siempre la calma y la paz de espíritu y no permitir jamas que la pasión o el deseo fugaz turben su tranquilidad. No creo que perseguir el conocimiento sea una excepción. Si el estudio al que te consagras tiende a debilitar tu afecto y a destruir esos placeres sencillos en los cuales no debe intervenir aleación alguna, entonces, ese estudio es inevitablemente negativo, es decir, impropio de la mente humana.

Sentía en el corazón el ansia de hacerme conocer y querer por aquellas criaturas adorables; ver sus dulces rostros vueltos hacia mí con afecto era mi máxima ambición.

For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive.

But they became every day more ardent and tender. It was a passion that had frown with his growth...

A]nd if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.

I love you very tenderly. Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again.

I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.

My affection for my guest increases every day. He excites at once my admiration and pity to an astonishing degree. How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief? He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated; when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.

Ninguno de nosotros gozaba de predilección alguna sobre los demás, y nunca se escucharon en casa órdenes autoritarias, pero nuestro cariño mutuo nos empujaba a obedecer y a satisfacer hasta el más mínimo deseo de los demás.

El afecto que este huésped suscita en mí aumenta diariamente. Excita simultáneamente mi admiración y mi compasión en medida asombrosa, ¡Cómo puedo ver una criatura tan noble destruida por el sufrimiento, sin experimentar el dolor más acerbo! Es tan bondadoso, y al mismo tiempo tan sensato; su mente está tan cultivada; y cuando habla, aunque sus palabras están elegidas con el arte más refinado, fluyen con rapidez y elocuencia sin igual.

Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. Alphonse Frankenstein

seek not a fellow-feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated.15 But now, that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy?

None knew of their love except their own two hearts...

Sometimes when I had planned the next morning for my escape a word of more than usual affection from her lips made me postpone my resolution. I reproached myself bitterly for what I called a culpable weakness; but this weakness returned upon me whenever the critical moment approached, and I never found courage to depart.

I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.

Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy? They possessed a delightful house (for such it was in my eyes) and every luxury; they had a fire to warm them when chill, and delicious viands when hungry; they were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another's company and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness.

if you've eaten your fill since childhood, you've plenty of time to think of love and nothing else.

We were alone and starved for love. Kids that lived in a world full of hate.