(A)t least simulated vulnerability is bearable/for…

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.…

— Daphne du Maurier

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“i want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated…forever in my mother’s arms.”

— 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…

— Rainbow Rowell

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

— Han Suyin

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

— Victor Hugo

“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and…

— Richard Yates

“Love has a certain element of tenderness, which alone pierces through the heart and binds us more intimately than any force in the universe…

— Jocelyn Soriano

“I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now…

— Carrie Fisher

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured…

— Sally Struthers

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

“Lord Thornbeck lifted her onto the saddle. He looked her in the eye, and her breath stilled in her chest. There was such an…

— Melanie Dickerson

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the…

— Margaret Deland