Affection Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

— William Ellery Channing

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are able to…

— John Friend

“Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug…

— Cheryl Strayed

“This feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection is what connects, unifies, and binds our humanity.”

— Susan C. Young

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin…

— Emily Dickinson