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“True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.”

Ifs Love May Together Causes Loss Changed Lovers Affection Intense Shock Admiration Unusual Association Ugliness

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!”

Ifs Care Mother Felt Loss Sweet Thousand Affection Active Obedience Tenderness Blank Dreary Rallying Rallying Point

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.”

Want Heart Made Stills Pain Past Left Loss Type Affection Breathing Stillness Want U

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.”

Suffering Lost Imagination Loss Treats Infinite Mere Affection Deny Variety Sentiments Lost Love Mistaken Ridicule Unrequited

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.”

Loss Losing Strive Affection

Author:Gary Zukav