Attraction Quote by Jane Austen

“One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which…

— Marcel Proust

“Attraction is composed of desire and danger.”

— Elizabeth Brundage

The purest kind of attraction is the one that is unexpected.

— Anonymous

“Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to…

— George Eliot

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

— Socrates

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of…

— Theophile Gautier

“Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.”

— Emily Brontë

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence--easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“True unconditional love is sacrificial—it is not easily offended, self-focused, or afraid of rejection. It seeks only the good of the other person.”

— Charles F. Stanley