Affection

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

—Audrey Hepburn

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

—Billie Holiday

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

—Oscar Wilde

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

—W. Somerset Maugham

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

—Eric Hoffer

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection.… Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

—Margaret Halsey

I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

—Shannon L. Alder

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

—Pindar

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

—W. H. Auden

So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.

—Robert Browning

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

—Victor Hugo