“[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.” LoveWritingPlayLastsFacesUnderstandingFourPityTendernessRomantic LoveSweet LoveFaith In Love Author:Eugene O'Neill
“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.” LoveLongHandsTearsParticularFlowerLoversBedStonesIndiaFilledEmbracePlantPreparedRaisedFleshShouldersServantSoilPotThickTendernessIdleSighAmusementCarpetMoonlightTemperatureFeverSilkKnotsSparkleBalconiesPrecious StonesBoudoir Author:Gustave Flaubert
“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.” LoveReasonJoySilenceExpressionGayDelightParadoxYearningTendernessSilence IsSighSaddest Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“"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."” IfsKnowsLoveSaidHappensWould BeRunningMissingMinesSakeAffectionSelfishWitnessIf I CouldThrownTendernessCaptainsDelightfulHigh PlacesDelightful Things Book:Works Source: Works
“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.” LoveNightMarriageDrinkWineFinalsGlassesContemporaryAttachmentDelicateTendernessHonorableDay And NightRefinedPouringCourtshipRiteNamelessBouquetsAromaAttentiveness Author:Herman Melville
“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.” IfsLoveGodFacesHurtProtectAll ThingsAbsolutesGod LoveProtectedTendernessGroundedSustainingAbsolute Love Author:James Finley
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” LoveLove IsPowerfulLove YouTrue LoveMost PowerfulInspirational LoveTendernessRomantic LoveSymptomsBeautiful LovePowerful LoveLove Is Strong Author:Victor Hugo