Tenderness Quotes

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.