Affection Quote by Washington Irving

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or…

— Samuel Johnson

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

— William Ellery Channing

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are…

— Rollo May

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

— William James

“The Noblest form of Affection”

— Oscar Wilde

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

— Phillips Brooks

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Lee Iacocca

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

— Zora Neale Hurston