Defeat Quote by Rebecca West

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

— Anonymous

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

— Alexander MacLaren

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

— Khalil Gibran

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

— Adam Duritz

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

— Victor Hugo

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing…

— Roland Barthes

Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes…

— Fethullah Gulen

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A hug overcomes all boundaries. It speaks words within the mind that cannot be spoken

— Anonymous

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not force upon others that which they cannot embrace in thier heart.”

— Russ Myers