Affection Quote by Sigmund Freud

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Bertrand Russell

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think…

— William Hazlitt

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

— St. Jerome

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child,…

— Dalai Lama

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

— James Mercer

“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a…

— Gary Hopkins

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain…

— Matthew Hussey

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by…

— Edgar Allan Poe