Top 146 Softness Quotes & Sayings

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

When you move as openness and softness of heart you’re moving in this life within your self in the same way that your being is. When you move as openness and softness of heart, you are all the way into the surface moving and growing, developing as oneness.

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas.

Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.

I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows

That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a very soft instrument.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

A few pounds show a lot on my body. But it's okay. I believe women look good with a bit of softness to them.

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

The air is all softness.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.