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Quotes About Tenderness

NEOLOGISMO Beijo pouco, falo menos ainda. Mas invento palavras Que traduzem a ternura mais funda E mais cotidiana. Inventei, por exemplo, o verbo teadorar. Intransitivo: Teadoro, Teodora.
~ Unknown
La pasión verdadera que se llama amor no puede alojarse en corazones duros y rebeldes a todo buen sentimiento.
~ Unknown
Y yo no supe cómo el abandono de aquel gesto pudo despertar tanta ternura en mí, ni por qué me fue tan dulce el tibio contacto de tu piel
~ Unknown
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
~ Marc Chagall
Jesus is parched, for [20]He meets only the ungrateful and indifferent among His disciples in the world, and among His own disciples, alas, He finds few hearts who surrender to Him without reservations, who understand the real tenderness of His infinite Love.
~ Unknown
welcoming the gradual evolution of passion into tenderness.
~ Marc Levy
In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.
~ Marcel Pagnol
My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her own troubles blended in a smile which, unlike those seen on the majority of human faces, bore no trace of irony save for herself, while for all of us kisses seemed to spring from her eyes, which could not look upon those she loved without seeming to bestow upon them passionate caresses.
~ Marcel Proust
When we are in love, our love is too vast to be wholly contained within ourselves; it radiates outwards, reaches the resistant surface of the loved one, which reflects it back to its starting-point; and this return of our own tenderness is what we see as the other's feelings, working their new, enhanced charm on us, because we do not recognize them as having originated in ourselves.
~ Marcel Proust
The truth is that as we grow older we kill all those who love us by the cares we give them, by the anxious tenderness we inspire in them and constantly arouse.
~ Marcel Proust
Sin embargo, he pintado con ternura los brazos de vuestras arañas, que han acariciado con una melancolía amorosa tantas cosas y tantos seres y ahora se han apagado para siempre.
~ Marcel Proust
With that tender consideration which, in great crises, people who are crushed by grief shew even for the slightest discomfort of others: "Forgive me for disturbing your sleep," she said to me. "I was not asleep," I answered as I awoke.
~ Marcel Proust
Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed
~ John Milton
Hee boulder now, uncall'd before her stood;   But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd   His turret Crest, and sleek enamel'd Neck,   Fawning, and lick'd the ground whereon she trod.
~ John Milton
Though alligators and snakes naturally repel us, they are no mysterious evils. They dwell happily in these flowery wilds, are part of God's family, unfallen, un-depraved and cared for with the same species of tenderness and love as is bestowed on angels in heaven or saints on earth. A
~ John Muir
to his cheek, and went back to the bed.
~ John Sandford
Make tender and awkward sexual advances, not war. ~ t-shirt
~ John Sandford
Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the longing and itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. Also, she wanted to touch Aron, and she did. She put her hand on his arm and felt him shiver under her fingers.
~ John Steinbeck
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself was a pitted battlefield of his own forces. He was confused now, but Dessie could hold his bit and point him, the way a handler points a thoroughbred at the barrier to show his breeding and his form.
~ John Steinbeck
Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.
~ John Steinbeck
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself was a pitted battlefield of his own forces.
~ John Steinbeck
I like to pet nice things with my fingers
~ John Steinbeck
Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.
~ John Williams
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
~ Moliere