Quotes About Tenderness

They are just dirty, all of them, low and cheap and dirty.' He stretched out his hand and pulled me down to the floor beside him. 'All except you. Tous, sauf toi.' He held my face between his hands and I supposed such tenderness has scarcely ever produced such terror as I then felt. 'Ne me laisse pas tomber, je t'en prie,' he said, and kissed me, with a strange insistent gentleness on the mouth.

I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of this astounding, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night.

tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst.

He held my face between his hands and I suppose such tenderness has scarcely ever produced such terror as I then felt. 'Ne me laisse pas tomber, je t'en prie,' he said, and kissed me, with strange insistent gentleness on the mouth.

But the fact that I had said it as he held my hand made it sound to me unutterably helpless and soft and coy.

Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.

Our heart is made by the love, for the love, and with the love.

Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength

You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence.

Great mercy, great love.

Love The Way Love, Loves You

Sensibility is the power of woman.

I have a soft spot for Iowa.

I have a soft spot for children.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

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

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

When I kiss you, I can taste your soul.

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.