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1 " It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. "
― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2 " Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world? "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
3 " Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled. Indifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion. I do not mean that we could not laugh at a person who inspires us with pity, for instance, or even with affection, but in such a case we must, for the moment, put our affection out of court and impose silence upon our pity. In a society composed of pure intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter. "
― Henri Bergson , Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
4 " Happiness comes more from loving than being loved and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love and to be hurt often and to love again-this is the brave and happy life. "
5 " Happiness comes more from loving than being loved and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love and to be hurt often and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. "
