Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work… — Khalil Gibran
Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel… — Kiran Desai
It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. — Cassandra Clare
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything… — Vladimir Nabokov
For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in… — Nalini Singh
I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a… — Sylvia Plath
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage,… — Bryce Courtenay
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I… — Brennan Manning
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly… — Daphne du Maurier
The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the… — Catherynne M. Valente
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. — Eudora Welty
All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her… — Kristin Chenoweth
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be… — Anne Bronte
Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. — Michel Houellebecq
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing… — Elisabeth Elliot
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He… — Daphne du Maurier
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and… — Zig Ziglar
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light… — Michael Ondaatje
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. — Willa Cather
Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to… — Julia Quinn
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that… — H.G. Wells

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