Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the… — Laini Taylor
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. — Robert Hass
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have… — Osamu Dazai
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. — Francoise Sagan
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No,… — Anna Akhmatova
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward… — Gretel Ehrlich
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events… — Dean Koontz
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that couldn’t contain the… — Miranda July
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to… — Chogyam Trungpa
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought… — Ken Follett
In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in… — Walter Benjamin
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all… — Rollo May
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. — Che Guevara
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . — Charles Bukowski
Try a little tenderness ... — Sara Zarr
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted… — Jeet Thayil
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's… — Anais Nin
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on… — David Levithan
Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself.… — Nick Bantock
I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in… — David Levithan
He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart beating through his… — Kiera Cass
Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look… — Cassandra Clare
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected… — Ann Radcliffe

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