Affection Quote by George Etherege

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for…

— George Eliot

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost…

— Anonymous

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of…

— John Steinbeck

“How much misery…how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in…

— Margaret Atwood

“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as…

— John Stuart Mill

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely…

— Rollo May

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…

— Willa Cather

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

— Benjamin Disraeli