Quotes About Affection

A life lived in love will never be dull.

We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Cats... With those eyes, they can melt your heart

Signor di Josselin, io so che lei mi ama, e le consento di dirmelo».

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.

Count Vronsky: I love you! Anna Karenina: Why? Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

I didn't know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. "What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said, "I can't help it.

The moments shared with family and the people you loved.

Your honied words, your honied love. Under all your honey runs a conduit of venom.

As one example, David Norman Smith, a sociologist at the University of Kansas, points out that exceptionally intense violence occurs with significantly greater frequency in cultures where children are routinely physically or emotionally abused or denied affection.

I so ill deserve the place his arms make for me.

I'm just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I'd carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn't lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We'd come so close, do you see, that I wouldn't be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And he's my country.

All love does ever rightly show humanity our tenderness.

The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a caring adult. It is time for physical closeness and comfort, of quiet and harmony, of sharing ideas and emotions, laughing and learning together. The learning and benefit that take place are not only enjoyed by the child. Any adult who takes time to share books with small children will be rewarded, enriched, and revitalized by it, every time.

The capacity for affection is the best part of humankind.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.