“Where does such tenderness come from And what do I do with it, you, sly, Adolescent, vagabond singer, Whose lashes couldn’t be… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Women are the best teachers in the universe, because they teach men how to love in a very innocent way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power,… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Their lips met with a tenderness Kate had not dreamed possible. The weeks of heart-break and uncertainty, the pain of wasted days,… — Jennifer Beckstrand Copy Share Image
There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness…In all ages everywhere, the… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself. 'There is nothing to be compared to it. … — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“So, of course Rose decided this would be a good time to discuss such matters. “I would also like to know if… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“He would not kiss her mouth or allow her to caress him in tenderness. He broke his fierce silence only to whisper… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
“Caro sat without speaking, turning toward him her look that was neither sullen nor expectant but soberly attentive; and, once, a glance… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Wherever I went in my life, I met people who wanted to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm a very immoral person," I answered. "When I'm really fond of anyone, though I deplore his wrongdoing it doesn't… — William somerset maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.” — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there -… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“A great deal of tenderness, but it was the tenderness of a hospice nurse - of one committed to caring but too… — Hannah Pittard Copy Share Image
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. — William James Copy Share Image
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
