Poem Quote by Tony Hoagland

“Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.”

— Herta Müller

“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Whenever we’re offered love, we should accept it … wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.”

— Glenn Meade

“Tenderness is a tough spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“fearlessness is the product of tenderness.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

“…—We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…”

— Jane Austen

“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too…

— Bronnie Ware

“one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly…

— José Luís Peixoto

“I want to stay in this moment, suspended forever. I don’t know yet that this tenderness between us will be impossible by the end.…

— Heather Demetrios

“I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality.”

— Galatians

“Also, remember, temptations of the heart are the most dangerous but, if we want to truly live, it’s a danger we must embrace.”

— Michael Harrington