Affection Loss Quotes

What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

There is no love left in your eyes, there is no love between your thighs.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

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.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

I can't touch Simon anymore.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.