Affection Quote by Stephen Crane

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front…

— Christine Feehan

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

— Johnny Cash

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm…

— Anonymous

Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.

— William Penn

“...for a moment he seemed to see himself as if in a dreamlike film, surrounded by kindred spirits at the warm center of some…

— James Lasdun

“stop for a drink, which made him feel”

— Jeffrey Archer

“He was so physical in his arguments. He loomed and gestured, his face went dark or burned with light. His eyes blazed. And he…

— Kristin Cashore

“He’d desperately wanted a boyfriend to lavish with affection and attention. He’d longed to know what it felt like, smelled like, tasted like to…

— Thorny Sterling

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

— Henry David Thoreau