Tenderness Quotes - Page 17

• Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

  Joseph Addison

  Humanity, Pity, Incitement

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• There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

  Denis Diderot

  Feelings, Sublime, Testicles

  Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, November 03, 1760.

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Heart, Mean

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• If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.

  James Finley

  Love, God, Hurt

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• Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.

  Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

  Believe, Justice, Whole

  Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1948). “What is man”

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• The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

  Jane Porter

  Anxiety, Doubt, Overcoming

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• Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

  Emily Carr

  God, Nature, Woods

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.56, D & M Publishers

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• Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

  Ezra Pound

  Taken, Genius, Way

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• I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Dark, Compassion

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• With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.

  Jericho Brown

  Meaningful, War, Reading

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• One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!

  Bruce LaBruce

  People, Trying, Want

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

  John Dryden

  Good Life, Mean, Use

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185

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• He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Real, Men, Gentle

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• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Wine

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• Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

  Joseph Addison

  Women, Passion, Mind

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.519

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• While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Life, Achievement, Feelings

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.358

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• The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

  Tasha Alexander

  Queens, Historical, Triumph

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• [Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

  Annette Messager

  Photography, Real, Writing

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• Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

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• Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Fiction, Wonderful, Subtlety

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• "Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Running, Selfish

  Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

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• Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Meditation, Dying, Beloved

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• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Art, Character, Greatness

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