Top 74 Love Affections Quotes

#1. Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#2. Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise ...

Emma Thompson

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#3. A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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#4. Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

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#5. When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

John Owen

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#6. The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#7. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

B.F. Skinner

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#8. Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

Christopher Paolini

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#9. All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#10. That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

John Donne

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#11. In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved, I've pretended to love, pretending it even to myself.

Fernando Pessoa

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#12. We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

George Etherege

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#13. Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

Karl Philipp Moritz

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#14. The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

William Shenstone

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#15. Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

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#16. We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we already love, and to promise what we already desire.

N. T. Wright

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#17. Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#18. It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

Thomas A Kempis

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#19. I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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#20. Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Richard Steele

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#21. We are a band of brothers. United in love for our common Savior, joined in his common cause of prayer for both friends and enemies, we find our affections kindled and our hearts warmed toward one another.

Megan Hill

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#22. If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

John Piper

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#23. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.

Mandy Hale

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#24. And as for objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is in truth the great point of inferiority, the want of which is really the great evil to be avoided in not marrying, I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about.

Jane Austen

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#25. I will love you, I will honor you, I will give you my affections. I will walk with no other partner, and no matter how dark or how cold the way, no matter how weak you become, I will love you always and walk together with you until we reach the King's City.

Annie Wald

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#26. I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

Cammie McGovern

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#27. The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

David Hume

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#28. Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.

Jonathan Hull

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#29. The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#30. Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity.

Joanne Madeline Moore

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#31. When a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections.."
"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

Gaston Leroux

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#32. My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.

Brother Lawrence

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#33. With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!

Boethius

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#34. That a woman's happiness does not come through man's glory and honour, nor through his generosity and affection, but through love that unites both of their hearts and affections, making them one member of life's body and one word upon the lips of God.

Kahlil Gibran

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#35. Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Ann Radcliffe

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#36. A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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#37. Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

Fernando Pessoa

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#38. You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every friendly pillow and comfortable chair like household gods. Together they add up to a great love, big enough to ignore this silly man who's hanging around your wife's skirts.

J.G. Ballard

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#39. There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Max Lucado

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#40. We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.

Matt Chandler

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#41. From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Jonathan Edwards

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#42. True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship. (Desiring God, 81-82)

John Piper

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#43. But, forasmuch as all favourite legends must be associated with the affections, and as many more people fall in love than commit murder - which it may be hoped, howsoever bad we are, will continue until the end of the world to be the dispensation under which we shall live - the

Charles Dickens

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#44. Preserve my understanding from subtilty of error, my affections from love of idols, my character from stain of vice, my profession from every form of evil. May

Anonymous

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#45. Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

Lew Wallace

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#46. Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them ...

Euripides

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#47. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

John Keats

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#48. Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#49. Love? His affections do not that way tend

William Shakespeare

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#50. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Pierre Charron

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#51. Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Madame De Stael

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#52. Love is the first cause of all the graces we desire; it warms the heart, and sweetly and powerfully influences our affections to delight in, and to walk in love with such an exceedingly gracious and merciful God.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

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#53. Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.

Thomas Watson

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#54. Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them.

James Shapiro

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#55. No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

Timothy Keller

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#56. Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned

Gail Carson Levine

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#57. There is nothing but death
Our affections can sever,
And till life's latest breath
Love shall bind us for ever.

James Gates Percival

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#58. The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Joseph Butler

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#59. We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

Phillips Brooks

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#60. Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Thomas A Kempis

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#61. What is love for, if not to intensify our affections - both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive
to be bitter.

John Piper

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#62. A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

Paul Washer

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#63. Humid seal of soft affections,
Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

Robert Burns

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#64. Love is the piety of the affections.

Theodore Parker

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#65. Friedrich kissed the top of her head. "Yes, before I fell in love with you," he said, sounding quite sheepish. "After that I grew quite stubborn about wanting to woo you rather than to buy your affections." "And

K.M. Shea

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#66. Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Bette Davis

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#67. A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

Rose Gordon

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#68. Ambrosio, learn to know me better. I love you for your virtues: Lose them, and with them you lose my affections. I look upon you as a Saint; Prove to me that you are no more than Man, and I quit you with disgust.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

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#69. Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...

Eliza Haywood

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#70. All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#71. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

Washington Irving

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#72. Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth.

Elisabeth Elliot

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

William Ellery Channing

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#74. A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

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