Affection Quote by Honore de Balzac

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of…

— Honore de Balzac

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

— Anonymous

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

— Walter Raleigh

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

— Hermann Broch

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

— Heloise

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

— Walker Percy

“There’s very little distance between love and hate, and often death obliterates the distance between the two entirely. They fuse into a paralyzing turmoil…

— J.A. Jance

“Hatred is an unwanted domain of our heart. It obstructs the most harmonious way between you and your love. If you totally rely on…

— Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate… Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence),…

— Sigmund Freud