Quotes About Tenderness

Love was now a mild streamlet that advanced in drips around my feet; despite how hard I worked at tenderness, I could not drown in a thing that shallow.

The Major folded his arms round her, holding her to him as if she was a child, and kissed her head. I will not change, dear Amelia, he said. I ask for no more than your love. I think I would not have it otherwise. Only let me stay near you, and see you often. Yes, often, Amelia said. And so William was at liberty to look and long: as the poor boy at school who has no money may sigh after the contents of the tart-woman's tray.

Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days. The young man's life is just beginning: the boy's leading-strings are cut, and he has all the novel delights and dignities of freedom. He has no idea of cares yet, or of bad health, or of roguery, or poverty, or to-morrow's disappointment.

When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?

It seemed to me, from a psychological angle, that the comics' worst offense was their blood-curdling masculinity. A male hero, at best, lacks the qualities of maternal love and tenderness which are as essential to a normal child as the breath of life. Suppose your child's ideal becomes a superman who uses his extraordinary powers to help the weak. The most important ingredient in the human happiness recipe still is missing - love.

Più che d'intelligenza abbiamo bisogno di dolcezza e di bontà.

Pos?uchaj jak mi pr?dko bije Twoje serce.

I closed my eyes softly and fell in love with the way I remembered you: body, soul, and all.

She wiped the black spilling from her eyelashes onto her cheek, and in that moment, I wanted, I needed, for magic to exist. I wanted to peel back her lonely skin and feel her sadness stare straight into the blue inside my eyes. I wanted and I needed it to know, that I, I loved her too, and my god I, I would fight for her.

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.

The most striking aspect of Jane's adult letters is their defensiveness. They lack tenderness towards herself as much as towards others ... They are the letters of someone who does not open her heart'. They are also, perhaps, the letters of someone who doesn't dare open her heart, for fear of what she might find there.

How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm and I am sad.

Mood is the basic ingredient of love.

Love is stronger than violence.

Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don't expect from them.

A noi si addice la paura della tenerezza

Monstrous tenderness gets tangled in guilt differently from intentional cruelty. More deeply. And for longer.

O gatinho, porque estava morto, tinha-me apanhado a matar. Que não tenha havido intenção, só piorava as coisas. A ternura monstruosa enreda-se na culpa de forma diferente da crueldade intencionada. Mais profunda. E mais longamente.

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

He feels as if he is floating, and she is weighting him to earth; he would like to put his arms around her and his face in her apron, and rest there listening to her heartbeat. But he doesn't want to mess her up, get blood all down the front of her.

Bawling, strong, one hour old, plucked from the cradle: he kissed the infant's fluffy skull and said, I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

Come down, my beauty, my darling, my dove

hurt more easily than anything nice.