“But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“I’m not letting you go. I’ve only just found you.” A tenderness glowed in his brown eyes that I’d never seen from… — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“At the skin, my blood calls out to your heart, my whole sky craves an island of tenderness. My rivers tilt towards… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
When someone loves you, they don't always have to say it. You can always know it by the way they treat you. — Carson Kolhoff Copy Share Image
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then… — Janet Fitch 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
“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
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
“Through her tears Clary could see them clinging to each other; there was a tenderness even in the curve of Magnus’s fingers… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The tears of those who never cry, the calm, the levelheaded ones, are terrible to see. She seemed to be split or… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I came to feel a tenderness for them all. This was something new to me. It gave me a curious pleasure to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near,… — Samuel Gilman Copy Share Image
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?… It's the courage of your own tenderness. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Tho the dark be cold and blind Yet her sea-fog’s touch is kind, And her mightier caress Is joy and the pain… — Gary Kamiya Copy Share Image
“Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you .” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge... — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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