Quotes about Gentle
Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity. a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.
- Cormac McCarthy
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
- DH Lawrence
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
- Hannah More
"King David commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, 'Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.' And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders."
- 2 Samuel 18:5
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Ephesians 4:2
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
- Lewis Carroll
Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love.
- Isabel Allende
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
- John Keats
The sun's touch is kind.
- JM Coetzee
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
- Victor Hugo
My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.
- Gabrielle Union
There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything.
- Barbara Kingsolver