Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint … Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles” — Deborah Heiligman Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“I have known the love and vengeance of wounded women, and the difficult book and the music that took the place of… — Ricardo M. de Ungria Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
When you're vulnerable and lost and then suddenly somebody is kind to you and gives you love and gives you tenderness and… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
“Last night, there was a moment before you got into bed. You stood, quite naked, bending forward a little - talking. It… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher 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
“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
“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
“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
God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. - Ephesians 4:32 — Bible Copy Share Image
With you - no challenge seems too big, the tenderness of Love building strength and fostering joy... — Unkown Copy Share Image
The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“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