Affection Quote by Ted Simon

“One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with…

— Jennifer Dubois

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

— Brad Mehldau

Love, like all living things, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just…

— Anonymous

“Looking at the turmoil of life from this standpoint we find all occupied with its want and misery, exerting all their strength in order…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.”

— George Orwell

“This feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection is what connects, unifies, and binds our humanity.”

— Susan C. Young

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

— Iimani David

“Remove the sentiment of love and discover how dangerously fragile are rendered one’s ties to the familiar world. How seductive the possibility of utter…

— Mark Frost

“We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no…

— Jacqueline Carey

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to…

— Anatole France

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned…

— Larry Crabb

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

— E.M. Forster