Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked… — Alice Munro
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and… — Anne Lamott
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. — Khalil Gibran
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own… — Khalil Gibran
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is… — Unknown Author
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender… — Unknown Author
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . — John Keats
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 respectâ€”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

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