51 Quotes About Hugs

There are some things that cannot be expressed without hugging.
(Maurice Maeterlinck)

Thousands and thousands of years would not be enough to tell the tiny second of eternity in which you embraced me, in which I embraced you.
(Jacques Prevert)

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without scent.
(Proverb)

A hug is the most beautiful dress to give: one size fits all, so it fits everyone.
(Anonymous)

If you really have to get lost, let it be in an embrace.
(Anonymous)

I hug my rival, but only to suffocate him.
(Jean Racine)

There is no consolation more comforting than that found in the arms of a sister.
(Alice Walker)

I would hug you even if you were a cactus and I were a balloon.
(Anonymous)

A hug is worth a thousand words.
(Charles Caleb Colton)

Hug your friends, but even tighter your enemies – hug them so tight that they won’t move.
(Lyndon B. Johnson)

Imagine embracing the immensity of time and the universe, and then compare to infinity what we call human life: you would see how small a thing this life is that we desire and seek to prolong.
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

For a woman, the most elegant dress is the embrace of the man she loves.
(Yves Saint Laurent)

Hugs can do a lot – especially for children.
(Diana Spencer)

A hug is the shortest distance between two friends.
(Anonymous)

Pleasure is often a passing guest, but pain holds us in a cruel embrace.
(John Keats)

Sometimes it’s better to put love in a hug than in words.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley)

They hugged each other so tightly that there was no room for feelings.
(Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

In true love it is the soul that embraces the body.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

A hug is the most beautiful dress to give: one size fits all, so it fits everyone.
(Anonymous)

Everyone needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
(Leo Buscaglia)

It is always better to reach out coldly over the deep abyss of eternal estrangement than to embrace each other with emotion over the deceptive whirlpools of understanding.
(Arthur Schnitzler)

Happiness is an unexpected hug.
(Anonymous)

Hugs are a perfect place to live.
(Anonymous)

I believe that during a hug you have to be silent. It is the moment when souls whisper to each other.
(Anonymous)

A man who receives the embrace of his children even when his hands are empty: that is a truly rich man.
(Anonymous)

We are angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing each other.
(Anonymous)

A pure soul is with God like a child with his mother: he caresses her, kisses her and his mother returns the caresses and hugs.
(John Mary Vianney)

The language of love is a secret language and its highest expression is a silent embrace
(Robert Musil)

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable.
(Martin Buber)

Love is always open-armed. If you close your arms to love, you will end up hugging only yourself.
(Leo Buscaglia)

Hugs solve 80% of sad days
(Anonymous)

I don’t give hugs. I am hugs.
(Salvador Dali)

What love has once embraced remains forever acquired by love.
(Ugo Bernasconi)

Even if I were your Mithridates, accustomed to defying the poisonous dart, you will always have to embrace me, immune, to know the ecstasy of the heart.
(James Joyce)

I have learned that every day you should push yourself to touch someone. People love a loving caress, or just a friendly pat on the back.
(Maya Angelou)

When we feel the need for a hug, we must take the risk of asking for it.
(Emily Dickinson)

Three matches lit one by one in the night. The first to see your whole face. The second to see your eyes. The last to see your mouth. And all the darkness to remind me of these things. While I hold you in my arms.
(Jacques Prevert)

We kept our eyes fixed on the sky, and it seemed to me that our souls were speaking to each other through the skin of our hands and were embracing each other in our glances that met in the stars.
(John Verga)

Embrace simplicity and be like raw wood, reduce selfishness and have few desires, abandon wisdom and free your mind from worries.
(Lao Tzu)

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful, but what becomes beautiful precisely because of their embrace.
(Karl Kraus)

You can love without trusting, just as you can hug without embracing.
(Robert Brault)

I hug you with so much tenderness, with all the passion of a child who loves only his mother.
(Charles Baudelaire)

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without scent.
(Chinese proverb)

Millions and millions of years will still not give me enough time to describe that little moment of eternity when you hugged me and I hugged you.
(Jacques Prevert)