Quotes about Attachment
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
— Charles Dickens
It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.
— Charles Dickens
I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.
— Charles Dickens
Why did you get married?" said Scrooge. "Because I fell in love." "Because you fell in love!" growled Scrooge,
— Charles Dickens
I loved Joe - perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him
— Charles Dickens
"You must love this place very much," said Miss Fenn... "So many homes are like twenty others. But this is unique, and you seem to know every cranny of it. I dare say you could never love another home so well." "Oh, I carry it with me," said Deronda... "To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years... The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
— George Eliot
Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man.
— Dennis Prager
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
— Thomas Merton
You were not contented while you had her, and to weep for her now is childish.
— Thomas Paine
The strength of government does not consist of anything within itself, but in the attachment of a nation, and the interest which a people feel in supporting it.
— Thomas Paine
If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.
— Thomas Watson
The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider
— Thomas Watson