Affection Quote by Honore de Balzac

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep,…

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Anonymous

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

— Walter Raleigh

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even…

— Abigail Adams

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

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

— Mason Cooley

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

— Dalai Lama