Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I… — Dorothy Parker
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the… — Carrie Fisher
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the… — Dean Koontz
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve.… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held… — Rainer Maria Rilke
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature… — Philip Pullman
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous,… — Joan Baez
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr
To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live… — John Keats
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and… — Alice Munro
Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh. — Elizabeth Chandler
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,… — Charles Dickens
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience,… — Orson F. Whitney
and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name,… — Sara Zarr
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so… — Lauren Kate
Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no… — Lisa Kleypas
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living… — Richard Wright
Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently. "Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes,… — James Patterson
He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue… — Margaret Atwood
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. — Maya Angelou

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