Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity. — David
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to… — Erasmus Darwin
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. — Bob Dylan
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. — William Faulkner
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness,… — John Dryden
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. — Robert Frost
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest… — Edward Gibbon
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck,… — Paula Cole
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. — Tony Curtis
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. — Ralph Fiennes
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little… — Chrissie Hynde
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. — William James
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad,… — William James
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those… — Adam Levine
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from… — Audre Lorde
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. — H. L. Mencken
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of… — Henri Nouwen
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. — Louis Pasteur
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am… — Thomas de Quincey

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