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Quotes About Affection

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One partner is always more in love than the other.
~ Francoise Sagan
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
~ Francoise Sagan
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
~ Francoise Sagan
Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you'll never miss a mother's love Till she's buried beneath the clay.
~ Frank McCourt
I love it--I just love it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy
~ Richard Bach
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
~ Coco Chanel
To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it's not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you've forgotten, don't keep anything.
~ Victor Hugo
To love is to act.
~ Victor Hugo
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
~ Andy Warhol
The measure of love is to love without measure.
~ attributed to Saint Augustine
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.
~ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.
~ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio