Affection Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

— Washington Irving

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

— Hugh B. Brown

“All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“I deny myself gentler kinds of affection—to touch or be kindly touched—as if that is a pleasure a body like mine does not deserve.”

— Roxane Gay

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

Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

— Witter Bynner

LOVE SONG, a caress set to music

— Nikhil Saluja

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

— William James

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

— Lee Iacocca

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

— Jock Sturges

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will…

— Samuel Johnson