“Love is space and time made tender to the heart.”
L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.
Variant translations:
Love is space and time made sensitive to the heart.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. V: The Captive (1923)
“The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.”
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
“Indeed your loveliness assures me of a kind and tender heart within.”
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1006–1007; Jason to Medea.
“There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 578.
Cardinal calls on faithful to have tender hearts during Lent https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/29155/cardinal-calls-on-faithful-to-have-tender-hearts-during-lent (5 March 2014)
“Tender is the night
For a broken heart
Who will dry your eyes
When it falls apart”
Space Song, Depression Cherry (August 28, 2015).
“The lines were fill'd with many a tender thing,
All the impassion'd heart's fond communing.”
Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love Letter from The London Literary Gazette (16th November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme II - Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love Letter
The Improvisatrice (1824)
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Context: Jesus recognized the need for blending opposites. He knew that his disciples would face a difficult and hostile world, where they would confront the recalcitrance of political officials and the intransigence of the protectors of the old order. He knew that they would meet cold and arrogant men whose hearts had been hardened by the long winter of traditionalism. … And he gave them a formula for action, "Be ye therefore as wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." … We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Evenings in Greece, First Evening.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 615.
