Affection Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

— Melissa Marr

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Lukewarm affection for God gives the impression that he is moderately pleasing. He is not moderately pleasing. He is infinitely pleasing. If we are…

— John Piper

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our…

— Mary Shelley

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards…

— John Woolman

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his…

— Anonymous

Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Bertrand Russell

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they…

— Charles Dickens