“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”
Source: Voyage in the Dark
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novelist from Dominica 1890–1979Related quotes
“I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
Anaïs Nin book House of Incest
House of Incest (1936)
Context: The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
A Coat http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1393/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914) <br class="br">Context: I made my song a coat<br>Covered with embroideries<br>Out of old mythologies<br>From heel to throat;<br>But the fools caught it,<br>Wore it in the world’s eyes<br>As though they’d wrought it.<br>Song, let them take it,<br>For there’s more enterprise<br>In walking naked.
“It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Variant: It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“Not one scar on my heart came from the enemy. They all came from people who said they "loved" me.”
movie Peaky Blinders
Character Thomas Shelby
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) Italian occultist
Cagliostro: the Splendour And Misery of a Master of Magic by W.R.H. Trowbridge, (William Rutherford Hayes), (August 1910) https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Trowbridge%2c%20W%2e%20R%2e%20H%2e%20%28William%20Rutherford%20Hayes%29%2c%201866%2d1938
“she is theof my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
Endgame (1957)