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Quotes About Tenderness

There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.
~ Melina Marchetta
I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful girl.
~ Melina Marchetta
He just watched the way Finnikin's hands rested on Evanjalin's neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.
~ Melina Marchetta
Cuando me doy la vuelta, me toma la cara entre las manos y me besa tan profundamente que no sé quién respira por quién, pero su boca y su lengua tienen sabor a miel cálida. No se cuánto dura, pero cuando me separo, lo hecho de menos al instante.
~ Melina Marchetta
Se inclina y me besa, y yo me aferro a su camiseta, deseando saborear cada momento.
~ Melina Marchetta
When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.
~ Melina Marchetta
He wanted to wrap his arms around her and kiss away her uncertainty. But if he did that she would bolt. So he brushed stray hairs that had fallen out of her ponytail off her face instead. Ignored how soft the strands felt against his fingers. Pretended his pulse wasn't stampeding like a herd of bison on the plain.
~ Unknown
Mas a terra é um ser: carece de família, desse tear de existências a que chamamos ternura.
~ Mia Couto
What I remembered most clearly from my first sex with another man was the unexpected tenderness. It disturbed me - disoriented me. I guess. I had expected homosexuality to be dark and furtive, but it wasn't.
~ Unknown
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.
~ Michael Ondaatje
They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.
~ Michael Robotham
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and 'tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
~ Michel de Montaigne
What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.
~ Michel Houellebecq
La tendresse est antérieure à la séduction, c'est pourquoi il est si difficile de désespérer.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Before the Code, romance and sex were intertwined. It was the Code that wrenched them apart, and the divorce remains in effect today. A cold-blooded and often depraved cinema that gives us sex with no humanity, feeling, or tenderness is Joseph Breen's most fitting legacy.
~ Unknown
Martha kisses me on the cheek too, only she does not wipe away her lipstick afterwards. When she is not looking, I touch where she put her lips. It feels sticky but in a nice way. Like she has left part of her kiss behind for me to find later tonight, when I am in bed and dropping off to sleep.
~ Mike Gayle
A szeretet melegít, s ? sohasem fázott még ilyen nagyon
~ Unknown
Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams.
~ Milan Kundera
Reposes, i jo reposo en tu, i et penso tendrament, i et veig, i et tinc.
~ Unknown
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn't just movies that couldn't contain the full cast of characters — it was us. We had to winnow life down so we knew where to put our tenderness and attention; and that was a good, sweet thing. But together or alone, we were still embedded in a kaleidoscope, ruthlessly varied and continuous, until the end of the end.
~ Miranda July
Et voudrois-tu que je fusse insensible aux tendres protestations de cette passion ardente qu'il témoigne pour moi  ?
~ Moliere
He picked poor Hubert out of his cot and took off his sleeping suit before he wrapped him up in a hot bath towel from the airing
~ Unknown