Quotes About Softness

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

y Dios, sí, él era blando. los poemas eran todos muy duros; había jugado al duro siempre, pero era un blando. en realidad todo el mundo era blando... el duro estaba allí sólo para cubrir al blando. qué trampa ridícula y estúpida.

it had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness

Much handled things are always soft(27).

I've had only two regular women. I liked the small breakable thing inside each one. Whatever their personality, smarts, or looks, something soft lay inside each. Like a bird's breastbone, shaped and chosen to wish on. A little V, thinner than bone and lightly hinged, that I could break with a forefinger if I wanted to, but never did. Want to, I mean. Knowing it was there, hiding from me, was enough.

His lips were as soft and red as the worms you found after a rain, and his eyes were vain and cruel. "I hate you," she whispered.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Por Dios, aunque su cara tenía una expresión dura, la voz de Zsadist era tan suave y hermosa como la llama de la vela!

We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Her hands are warm and soft. Hands I knew better then my own.

Oh, I know you. You're soft, like most men. You make up romances about people instead of seeing them as they are.

And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.

Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is keener than an axe? What is softer than melting wax? Truth is brighter than the light, Falsehood darker than the night. Revenge is keener than an axe, And love is softer than melting wax.

Unceasing calling upon the name of God cures one not only of passions, but also of actions; and as a medicine affects a sick man without his comprehension, similarly the invocation of the name of God destroys passions in a manner beyond our comprehension." —St. Barsanuphius the Great "The more rain falls on the earth, the softer it makes it; similarly, Christ's holy name gladdens the earth of our heart the more we call upon it.

Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

I have a soft spot for Iowa.

One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The