Desire Quote by Anonymous

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

— Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is a virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Tenderness is the infancy of love.

— Antoine Rivarol

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.

— William Godwin

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

— William James

“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

— Anonymous

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

— Isabelle Adjani

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

— Allan Gurganus

“Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a…

— Victor Hugo