Tenderness Quotes
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Tenderness Quotes & Sayings
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Tenderness of heart and kindness of the soul are not signs of weakness, but they are signs of inner strength.
— Debasish Mridha
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
— Marlene Dietrich
Try a little tenderness ...
— Sara Zarr
You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender
— John Geddes
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
— Ingrid Bergman
There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.
— Rachel McAdams
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes ...
— Teresa Of Avila
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
— Henry Fielding
Where does such tenderness come fromAnd what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer? — Marina Tsvetaeva
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
— Cornel West
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
— H.L. Mencken
Give us more tenderness of heart, give us to feel the wounds of Jesus till they wound our sins to death.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
— Albert Camus
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust ... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.
— Laurel Nakadate
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
— Samuel Johnson
Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.
— Margaret Wise Brown
At the skin, my blood calls out toyour heart, my whole sky craves
an island of tenderness.
My rivers tilt towards you. — Marina Tsvetaeva
The leopard is a cruel lover. His tenderness breaks the gazelle's heart.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
— Honore De Balzac
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.
— Washington Irving
Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.
— E. M. Forster
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
— Jean Genet
Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength — Jonathan Star
A dream of tenderness wrestles with all I know of history — Adrienne Rich
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
— Willa Cather
For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.
— Stefan Zweig
This is what it means to be loved ... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender ...
— Banana Yoshimoto
You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.
— Chris Fabry
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
— Anna Seward
This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.
— Joanna Brooks
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.
— Winston Graham
Tenderness is the infancy of love.
— Antoine Rivarol
She reaches for me then, angry in her tenderness as only Dina can be. Not as a navigator, you dumb bitch.
— Ann Aguirre
Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
— Pope Francis
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.
— Wilferd Peterson
He views life with tenderness and determination.
— Paulo Coelho
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
— Marjorie Holmes
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
— Marlene Dietrich
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
— Kahlil Gibran
The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us ... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.
— Pope Francis
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
— Salman Rushdie
All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.
— Susana Fortes
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
— William Faulkner
He was a warm, long stretch of strength and tenderness smelling of sunshine, masculine heat and lemons.
— Rhys Ford
When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
— Colum McCann
there have been morningsso quiet and tender
like a poem, on Thursday's lips
that I wondered
if I'd been kissed at all... — Sanober Khan
We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
— Pablo Neruda
She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror.Dance. Dress. Try a little tenderness. — Rainbow Rowell
There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.
— Richard Alleine
A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.
— Amy Adams
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
— Phillips Brooks
He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
— Charles Dickens
Beauty comes from tenderness.
— Katherine Center
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.
— Pope Francis
She could fade and wither- I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.
— Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
— Kahlil Gibran
The way to my heart is through your heart.
— Marty Rubin
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.
— Martin Luther
I stay where I am for just one second longer, for one second reveling in the feeling of being held, touched with tenderness, even if it isn't real.
— Cindy C. Bennett
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
— Jaggi Vasudev
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
— Lawrence Durrell
Tenderness was not yet dust.
— Henri Cole
The birthing wolf,Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
Food to feed the universe. — Roman Payne
You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.
— Shae-Lynn Bourne
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
— Albert Camus
Tenderness is the attempt to create a tiny artificial space in which it is mutually agreed that each will treat the other like a child.
— Milan Kundera
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
— Eudora Welty
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
The world that jibes your tenderness / Jails your lust.
— Carson McCullers
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
— Robert Hass
Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
— H.G.Wells
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I'm learning that both body and soul require more tenderness and attentiveness than I had imagined.
— Shauna Niequist
