Affection Quote by Anonymous

There wasn't exactly a plethora of physical affection in our family.

— Mariette Hartley

“The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage”

— Josephine Hart

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ...

— Anonymous

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as strangers-for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than…

— M.T. Anderson

“As for other acquaintances – there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world and people are glad to get…

— George Eliot

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in…

— Eda LeShan

We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are…

— Francois Fenelon

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for…

— Luke Davies

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

— Fanny Burney