Tenderness Quotes - Page 9

• I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Doctors, Doe

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• Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Brother, Men, Compassion

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

  William Wordsworth

  Passion, Men, Soul

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

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• Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Light, Long, Understanding

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “The Birds And Other Stories”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

  Eudora Welty

  People, Onions, Layers

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• Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Loneliness, Fighting

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

  William Faulkner

  Passion, World, Purity

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• My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Thinking, Mad

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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• I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Kindness, Important, Understood

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• When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm here.' The Lord speaks this way, too... Usually, Christmas seems like a very noisy feast, but we can use a bit of silence to hear these words of love, closeness and tenderness.

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Children, Dad

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• To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Mean

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• When the tribal groups of december trade
  Seated in the figure of crocodile
  And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made
  Real. All... For more than one reason they smile.
  These codes are writ in secret, feeling fine
  To keep what's private to my self since we
  All must face our maker in our own ryhme
  And reasons for being ( from regrets) free
  So let the memory of your glory
  Be the tenderness heartfelt love starkly
  In the sky of my mind vast and pretty
  Evermore glittering simplicity
  Where in the truth of country grows sober
  And sunshines through fog to radiate wonder

  John Armstrong

  Country, Song, Nature

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• A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

  James E. Faust

  Marriage, Husband, Mirrors

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• To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

  Li-Young Lee

  Fathers Day, Dad, Prayer

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.15, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

  John Ruskin

  Art, Stupid, Eye

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of love and tenderness. Envision with me the Savior’s embrace as I read His words: “Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?

  Mervyn B. Arnold

  Encouragement, Names, May

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• When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.

  David Jeremiah

  Voice, Lessons, Speak

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• To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47

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• I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

  Hedi Slimane

  Night, Dresses, Admiration

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• It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.

  Robert Musil

  Past, Delicate Life, Shadow

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• It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Giving, Laughing

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Weakness, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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