Affection Quote by Cesare Pavese Download Open image “All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.” — Cesare Pavese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Habit Habits Love Sacred
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is;… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
