Quotes About Tenderness

I felt a tenderness for her that was deep and pure, a miracle of love preserved. How clear it flowed, that fountain from the far past. Yes, we must quietly collect our past, collect it up with tacit understanding, without any intensity or drama, blaming and exonerating ourselves with a difference. And how wonderfully possible it seemed, this silent process of redemption

Me abraza con fuerza, pero no hay amor ni ternura. Sólo desesperación. Quizá tenga que ver con la conciencia de que me estoy alejando de él, alejándome de este mundo que él quiere que habite: su mundo, el mundo que no compartimos.

Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness

Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant

Tenía la ternura torpe de quien nunca ha sido amado y debe improvisar.

Marcelo was a gift from the gods, the perfect confidant. They talked to one another, and he made her laugh with his ugliness and the inquisitive look in his toad eyes. With this Chihuahua that barked at mice and ghosts, she could release the unbearable tenderness she felt inside but could not show to her daughter for fear of overwhelming her.

My erotic passion is quieter now, and maybe someday it will disappear altogether; I have heard that happens with age. I don't want to think about that possibility right now. If it happens, I hope that passion can be replaced by humor, tenderness, and camaraderie, as some of my older friends who have partners have said.

Love doesn't grow like a wild plant, it needs a lot of care.

He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise

Sweetest li'l feller, everybody knows; Dunno what to call him, but he's mighty lak' a rose; Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

O friends, I pray tonight, Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think gently of me; I am travel-worn, My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.

An amiable weakness.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Kindness affects more than severity.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Princess," he whispered against her ear. "My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.