Quotes about Affection
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
— Catherine of Siena
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
What is done in love is done well.
— Vincent van Gogh
He who plants kindness gathers love.
— St. Basil
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the center, but not the boundary, of the affections.
— Mary Baker Eddy
When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.
— Song of Solomon 1:2
I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.
— Lauren Kate
Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.
— Thomas a Kempis
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
— Mother Teresa
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
— Deuteronomy 10:15