Top 100 Tenderness Love Quotes
#1. In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
David A. Bednar
#2. Love is joy, love is suffering, love is tenderness, love is beautiful. Love is you.
Rachel L. Demeter
#3. I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
Agnes Smedley
#4. You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.
Marc Parent
#5. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. But I'm shocked by the tenderness in his voice. The sincerity with which he wants to know. He's like a feral dog, crazed and wild, thirsty for chaos, simultaneously aching for recognition and acceptance.
Love.
Tahereh Mafi
#7. I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.
Tahereh Mafi
#8. It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.
Robert Goolrick
#9. It was enough to see her face light up when we heard the sounds that told us my brother was come home, or to catch the sudden tenderness that came into is eyes when he looked at he, to realise the depth of the love that had grown between those two strange hearts.
Ahdaf Soueif
#10. Happiness will bloom
With fragrance and beauty
If you plant the seeds of love
With a deep driving desire
in the garden of hope
And nurture with tenderness,
Compassion, and care;
If you are always eager to share.
Debasish Mridha
#11. His hands framed her face again, his amber eyes alive with love, with tenderness. "I want to make a vow to you. I'll love you with everything in me. I'll bring you as much happiness as I can give you. But I cannot allow your death, not at my hands. You're more important than I am.
Christine Feehan
#13. He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer
she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.
Jane Green
#14. He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness till you just about can't stand it anymore.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#15. I hang here like Hallaj, feeling those lips
on me, the honor of being lifted up
on a crucifixion apple tree.
Now the kissing is over.
Fold your love in.
Hide it like pastry filling.
Whisper within with
a shy girl's tenderness
Jalaluddin Rumi
#16. Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.
Johnny Rich
#17. How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
Albert Camus
#18. Their lips met with a tenderness Kate had not dreamed possible. The weeks of heart-break and uncertainty, the pain of wasted days, and the despair of unfulfilled dreams released her like winter surrenders its ruthless grip on the frozen earth in early spring. Did every kiss hold such promise?
Jennifer Beckstrand
#19. You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:
because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.
Pablo Neruda
#20. To reveal someone's beauty is to reveal their value by giving them time, attention, and tenderness. To love is not just to do something for them but to reveal to them their own uniqueness, to tell them that they are special and worthy of attention.
Jean Vanier
#21. Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose.
Karen Ranney
#22. Yet her heart did not thirst for emotions like the hearts of sentimental women; she was not searching for a man's unique love nor for the gratification of a passion. All she required was the admiration of every man she met, acknowledgment of capitulation, the homage of universal tenderness.
Guy De Maupassant
#23. When I am feeling
depressed and anxious
sullen
all you have to do is
take off your clothes
and all is wiped away
revealing life's
tenderness.
Frank O'Hara
#24. Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
Rollo May
#25. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#26. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H.L. Mencken
#27. Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.
Noel Coward
#28. In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.
Maurice Bejart
#29. That look, that tenderness in her eyes, made me realize for the first time what was happening to me: I was falling in love.
Christina Lauren
#30. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
#31. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.
Chris Fabry
#32. He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him ... This was no choice made with the mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#33. An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
John Ruskin
#34. The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
Remy De Gourmont
#35. Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot
#36. The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
#37. In a tenderness so explicit, sexuality can become obsolete
Anonymous
#38. [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
#39. The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.
Noy Holland
#40. 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
#41. After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them
not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
Arthur C. Clarke
#42. You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husband Charles
Deborah Heiligman
#43. Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.
Wilferd Peterson
#44. Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.
Cassandra Clare
#45. The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.
Victor Hugo
#46. The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#47. The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.
Marianne Williamson
#48. As he'd slept one night, suffering from some nightmare, she'd gazed down at him with tenderness. Her chest had ached with feeling for him - as his continued to do for her. She'd smoothed hair from his brow, soothing him with soft words.
Kresley Cole
#49. When you cannot feel,
The purity of love,
The tenderness of beauty,
The drinkability of wine,
The simplicity of a smile,
You have to go back and drink coffee
M.F. Moonzajer
#50. Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.
Cynthia Hand
#51. Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
#52. His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!
Samuel Gilman
#53. I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight ... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#54. I'm an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.
Sarah Noffke
#55. The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us.
Pope Francis
#56. It is such a beautiful life, but many people spend it worrying, burdened and frowning. You can easily see the beauty of life in the laughter of a child, the tenderness of a mother, the smile of a friend or the love of a compassionate wife.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#57. Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas De Quincey
#58. His eyes locked with mine, and my breath caught at the raw longing and hope swirling in their gray depths. "You love me?" he asked hoarsely. Two hot tears ran down my face. "Yes." His mouth claimed mine with a fierce tenderness that made my heart want to explode in my chest.
Karen Lynch
#59. There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.
Frederick William Robertson
#60. I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.
Olaf Stapledon
#61. An infant, in his first sleepiness, must let go of the world; a man must learn to die. What comes between are the grains of sand. Ambition. Loss. Envy. Desire. Hatred. Love. Tenderness. Joy. Shame. Loneliness. Ecstasy. Ache. Surrender.
Ethan Canin
#62. If I open my mouth
My word would be of love and hope
Tenderness completing me from inside out
Chimnese Davids
#63. When a man is loved by a strong, confident woman he too is stronger and more confident. Once he has been touched by the tenderness of a strong, confident woman he too can touch with tenderness. That kind of love is contagious.
Toni Sorenson
#64. SMILE Is Not Just A Word ... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD ... So SMILE ALWAYS ... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#65. I think that a certain hunger for him came first and was followed by a feeling of tenderness, gradually increasing, for a person who aroused such hunger and then satisfied it. Maybe that was what I felt for him that I thought was love.
Lydia Davis
#66. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.
Pope Francis
#67. He's been protecting this intense, precious bond we share that is more than desire, more than tenderness, more than adoration, more than love.
Nina Lane
#68. This is what it means to be loved ... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender ...
Banana Yoshimoto
#69. The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.
Carolyn Forche
#70. The way to my heart is through your heart.
Marty Rubin
#71. One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.
Jose Luis Peixoto
#73. For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
Francoise Sagan
#74. The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.
Pope Francis
#75. There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.
Heather Wolf
#76. To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God.
Simone Troisi
#77. The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.
Germaine Greer
#78. Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness ... I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.
Sophie Blackall
#79. Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.
Max Barry
#80. He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
Charles Dickens
#81. That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder
she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love.
T.F. Hodge
#82. In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness
Pope Francis
#83. He doesn't know it, but when Peter talks about Genevieve, he gets a certain softness in his face. It's tenderness mixed with impatience. And something else. Love. Peter can protest all he wants, but I know he still loves her.
Jenny Han
#84. Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
Samuel Johnson
#85. Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
Pablo Neruda
#86. I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again - can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me.
Allen Ginsberg
#87. Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#88. We who have travelled much and loved much: we who have
I will not say suffered for we have always recognized through suffering our own self-sufficiency
only we appreciate the complexities of tenderness, and understand how narrowly love and friendship are related
Lawrence Durrell
#89. Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception.
Dorothy Dunnett
#90. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
Pope Francis
#91. Every day is Make a Difference Day.
1. Try a Little Tenderness.
2. A Change of Heart Changes Everything.
3. Choose Integrity as your True North and you will never get lost. (Professional athletes wise up.)
Steve William Laible
#92. He kissed her temple, her hair, and then her mouth again, with great passion and heartbreaking tenderness. My Love ... from the beginning of time until the end. Always and forever. You'll always be my love. Always.
Patricia Ryan
#93. It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
Teresa Of Avila
#94. Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother's love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.
Kirsten Beyer
#95. The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.
David Levithan
#96. When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly.
Laura Lane
#97. I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
Sue Monk Kidd
#98. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
Washington Irving
#99. Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#100. may my touch
always...be tender
as i would stroke
mother's cheeks
when she cried.
Sanober Khan
