“Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won’t quit. I can’t remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that’s for sure.”
Source: Six Impossible Things
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British–Australian physician and plastic surgeon 1958Related quotes
“I know nothing and my heart aches”
25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009).
Context: In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that’s what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it’s too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know…. Well, even my best friend didn’t know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this.
John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black (2011)
“I love you. You are my heart beating
outside of my chest.”
Source: Lover at Last
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
“I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition