Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands… — Janet Fitch
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. — Robert Bly
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of… — Frank Herbert
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that… — Brennan Manning
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's… — Jenna Blum
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a… — Diana Gabaldon
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have… — Francoise Sagan
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. — Mitch Albom
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became… — Virginia Woolf
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms… — Walker Percy
i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him… — Ellen Hopkins
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he… — Norah Vincent
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it… — Pablo Neruda
she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever… — Judith McNaught
And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. — Pablo Neruda
And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of… — Jodi Picoult
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction… — C.S. Lewis
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at… — Brennan Manning

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