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Quotes About Softness

A world with zombies in it had no tolerance for softness or sentiment. The dreadfuls infected everything just by virtue of existing. To live in their world, one had to become like them. Dead inside. So
~ Steve Hockensmith
She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure.
~ Michel Faber
My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I never was hard or sell-sufficient enough. When people are soft--soft people have got to shimmer and glow--they've got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a-- paper lantern over the light.... It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.
~ Tennessee Williams
A related reason why people resist making the most important move is that they think an outward mindset will make them soft when hard behavior is required. But this is a misunderstanding. As we've said, an outward mindset doesn't make people soft; it just makes them open, curious, and aware. Similarly, an inward mindset doesn't make people hard. In fact, people whose mindsets are inward often engage in behaviors that are softer than would actually be helpful.
~ The Arbinger Institute
True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude — the vehicle for absolute grace.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.
~ Bruce Lee
Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night.
~ Bruno Schulz
Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.
~ Bryant McGill
But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened. And like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity.
~ Herman Melville
Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
~ Faye Dunaway
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
~ Louis Kronenberger
All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.
~ Regina Spektor
It's very nice to hear something very soft to your ear when you have something very hard to your eyes.
~ Gaspar Noe
I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy.
~ Linda Ronstadt
I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!
~ Amber Liu
They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
~ Johnny Bench
I think I definitely get my soft side from my mother.
~ Brantley Gilbert
I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
~ Nargis Fakhri
That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.
~ Tom Herman
I've let my body soften. I've let it relax.
~ Wendy Whelan
There has always been a softer side to Sushmita Sen. You might never see it, but there is one. And you will never see the 'real' Sushmita on screen.
~ Sushmita Sen
I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.
~ Alessandro Michele
Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them.
~ Ryan Kwanten