Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot 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
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
She gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me… — Steve Toltz 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 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
Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“[Hers] was an existence between heaven and earth... beyond her stretched as far as the eye could see... an immense space of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine,… — Kyuzo Mifune 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“The Everything and Nothing of Money The Legacy Letters By Carew Papritz Summer, and you are the first man and the first… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“If I open my mouth My word would be of love and hope Tenderness completing me from inside out” — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.” — Susana Fortes Copy Share Image
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take off your clothes and all is wiped… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Bad bananas are like push-up bras--a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain.” — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
“Is there something to be learned from fast tenderness that wanes just as fast as it forms?” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image