Tender Feelings Quotes

#1. Poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it - what roseate-coloured fancies! To the curtain, however, I had never given a thought. The fact is that when I moved the flower-pots, it LOOPED ITSELF up. There now!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.

Czeslaw Milosz

#3. I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'

Stephen Colbert

#4. We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#5. We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

Brit Hume

#6. She was so desperate to love and be loved, she could sprout tender feelings toward a rock. And rocks didn't call her "bewitching" or "temptress." Rocks didn't have touchable golden brown hair.

But rocks and Ransom did have something in common.

Tessa Dare

#7. Loving Sarah had freed all my tender feelings for women. I could always find in my heart an excuse for anything any woman did.

Isabel Miller

#8. Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

Gloria Steinem

#9. Varina was breathing hard through her nose, her face pinched, not unlike a child's. "You don't know how mad you can make people," she said. "I had tender feelings for you once, whether you knew it or not. But you're a shit, Dave Robicheaux.

James Lee Burke

#10. Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush.

Melissa Marr

#11. Because silence is the birthplace of happiness. Silence is where we get our bursts of inspiration, our tender feelings of compassion and empathy, our sense of love.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

Garrison Keillor

#13. Being in love with someone was supposed to be a sweet and tender release. However, being in love with your best friend, who didn't interpret those feelings in the same way, became a violently brutal ache.

Angela McPherson

#14. Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

Julian Assange

#15. The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother's feelings for her.

Sonja Yoerg

#17. Lastly, say to me, if you can, with feelings as tender as mine for you: my dear Beelzebub, I adore you...

Jacques Cazotte

#18. The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Thomas Carlyle

#19. Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

D.J. MacHale

#20. Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.

Catherynne M Valente

#21. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

Christopher Moore

#22. I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions in ways that other forms can't, or in ways we can't using solely traditional means.

Laurie Foos

#23. When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.

George Eliot

#24. I suppose there is something in a women's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.

Bram Stoker

#25. I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carrie Fisher

#26. Why would a person do that, Bill? Why would a person go back into the nightmare of her own accord?

Stephen King

#27. Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

Ivan Turgenev

#28. It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.

Danika Stone

#29. We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a violent rainstorm...
with no stream
no ocean vast enough
to flow into.

Sanober Khan

#31. I like it when you're not perfect.

Kasie West