Tenderness Quotes

Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

There is no tenderness without bravery.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

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 feelings.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

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, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.