Affection Quote by Charles Bukowski

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it…

— Anonymous

“You do not insist that I love you but how can I help it when I hear your unbridled laughter? How can I deny…

— Kamand Kojouri

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

— Alice Walker

“Don't insist that love come immediately. Perhaps you are not ready for it, or you are not developed enough to attract the love you…

— Louise Hay

You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give…

— Joan Crawford

It's nice to live through a good moment and be able to share it with someone else. Otherwise, what sense would it have? Selfishly,…

— Haider Ackermann

“Because it wouldn’t have been fair to you,’ I say. ‘And then, selfishly, I knew that if I slept with you, then for the…

— Mila Gray

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

— Anne Frank

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the…

— Thomas Merton

“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.”

— Bryant McGill

Same-sex 'marriage' selfishly and deliberately deprives children of either a mother or a father.

— Mike Johnson

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

— Anonymous