Quotes about Affection
Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love. And
— Shane Claiborne
can sing my wife a song, but she really knows I love her when I do the dishes.
— Shane Claiborne
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.
— Ayn Rand
His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People came to him; he came close to no one. He accepted all. His affection was golden, smooth and even, like a great expanse of sand; there was no wind of discrimination to raise dunes; the sands lay still and the sun stood high. ---Toohey.
— Ayn Rand
What matters is how well we have loved.
— Barack Obama
My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.
— Stephen Covey
Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.
— Stephen Covey
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
— Jacques Maritain
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.
— Walt Whitman
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
— Teresa of Avila