Quotes about heart

A collection of quotes on the topic of heart, love, doing, likeness.

Best quotes about heart

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist

“We do not conquer the lands, we conquer the hearts.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

Source: Aşıkpaşoğlu History (Prepared: Atsız), 154

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”

Tennessee Williams Stairs to the Roof

This is the subtitle of the play
Source: Stairs to the Roof (1941)

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Claude Monet quote: “What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”

Eleanor Roosevelt quote: “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

+ 3 quotes

Tina Turner quote: “Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?”

Lois McMaster Bujold quote: “The gods…the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart.”

Oprah Winfrey quote: “Trust your heart, and success will come to you.”

Quotes about heart

“I just wanna lay my head on your chest,
so I'm as close as it gets to your heart
We can fall apart, start over again”

Lil Peep (1996–2017) American rapper

Song We Think Too Much, Album: Hellboy

“Already in his old age, at seventy-five years old, after being seriously hospitalized for a severe heart attack, Javier Pérez would remember that only once in his entire existence had he believed he understood what life was.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

Life, Age

“The person on foot realizes that there is no misery in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, first world cities that, I think, have lost the heart that Latin Americans still have.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

Personality, Thinking, World

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

love, Love, Life, People

We consider the quote as suspicious, we have no evidence supporting authorship

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter

Also attributed to Johnny Depp.

Feeling

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

People, Democracy, Soul, Housing

“Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Variant translations: Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Le Petit Prince (1943)

Secret

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Heartbreaking, Inspirational, love, Life

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Wise, Graduation, Education

“I always open my heart. If you don’t open your heart, you cannot absorb anything and it’s not interesting. The driving force for growth is to have an open heart‬.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

Translation source: https://kaerb.tumblr.com/post/169666201799/i-always-open-my-heart-if-you-dont-open-your (user-translation) from 13 January 2018. Annotation: This quote originates from an interview of the 2012/13 season. A variation can be found in the Japanese magazine Sports Graphic Number, issue no. 822, released on 7 February 2013. Page: 25. Original: (ja) いつも心を開いているんです。心を開いていなければ何も吸収できないし、おもしろくない。心を開くことが成長の原動力。

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Variant: You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect — you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break — her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

love, Love, Smile, Thinking

“The hole in one's heart gets filled by others around you. Friends won't flock to someone who abandons the memory of his friends and gives up on the world just because things don't go the way he wants them to. That won't help fill the hole in your heart. And people won't help those who run away and do nothing. As long as you don't give up, there will always be salvation.”

Hatake Kakashi book Naruto

People, World, Way, Memory

“Where There is a will
there is a will
to search and discover
a better day

Where a positive heart
is all you need
to rise beyond
and succeed

Where young minds grow
and respect each other
based on their deeds
and not their color

when times are dim
say as I say
"Where there's a will
there's a way!”

Tupac Shakur book The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Color, Way, Search, Time

“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

Time, Dreams, Help, Thinking

“I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.”

Niall Horan (1993) Irish singer and songwriter

Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan

Love, Girl, Boy

“Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my childhood?”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

Love, Childhood

“Life is good, life is great.
Alaways love and never hate.
Break the rules, stand apart.
Ignore your head, and follow your heart.”

Ashley Purdy (1984) American musician

Love, Life, Hate

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Time, Waiting

We consider the quote as suspicious, we have no evidence supporting authorship

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)

Sad, Feeling

“In other to be a successful leader you must be heartless, heart makes you weak”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

Success

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

“A man's greatness is determined by his heart not by the caste and the lineage he brings.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet

मुनामदन (Munamadan)

“I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.”

Niall Horan (1993) Irish singer and songwriter

Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan

Girl, Boy

“Teachers also say that teaching for learning how-to-learn-learn will consume a lot of time. It will be difficult to cover all the content specified by the curriculum if learning uses up too much time on hands-on activities. The less-is-more alternative has not been considered as a possible solution at all in educational reforms where only expanding will bring about progress and development is more. Now is an appropriate time for educators to come down to the heart of educational matters or the learning methods to achieve the less-is-more alternative in all educational reforms.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

Teacher

Time, Learning, Teachers, Education

“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer

Soul, Star, Universe

“My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human

Fear, Personality

“Love is the motto, love is the beginning, love is the source and love is everything that your heart shall crave for, in this world and the next.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Love

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Faith, God

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Soul

“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

“One love, one heart,
Let's get together and feel alright.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)
Song lyrics
Source: Bob Marley - Legend

Love, Feeling

“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.”

Babur (1483–1530) 1st Mughal Emperor

"History of India" at Amazing World http://www.amworld.info/india-travel/history-of-india

Faith, Soul, Confidence

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Variant: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

“Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Sleep, Hurt

“Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped.
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Hate, Fate, Children, Truth

“God should be welcomed in the heart and not in the act of worship alone.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend, Thinking

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

For Men, Sea

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Thiis was published without credit in The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936) with the title "Friendship", and since that time has sometimes been misattributed http://www.geonius.com/eliot/quotes.html to Eliot; it is actually an adaptation of lines by Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859): Misattributed Context: Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

For Friend

“Wordless,
Infinite —
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.”

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter

“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

Courage

“My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Help

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5

Love, Food, Thinking, Sleep

“Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.”

Osama bin Laden book Messages to the World

As quoted in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) by Bruce Lawrence ISBN 1844670457
2000s, 2004

Hate, War

“Never lose heart while pursuing the path of trust. Live a principled life.”

Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism

Basavanna's Preachings

Life

“I was trying to figure out what I’m doing, and that was the first time I was constantly being kicked down for doing that. When I didn’t know, I just wanted to say, ‘This is what I want, this is where I am in my professional life, things changed in my personal life, things changed in my heart — everything.’ And people just thought, ‘Alright, this is what we think.’ And yeah, I made some decisions that weren’t great as well, and so did he and that’s why we went through all that to only make us better. And he has heard [the song] and he has seen the video, and it’s something that I feel like girls need hear, and it’s something I’m willing to share with people.”

Selena Gomez (1992) American singer and actress

Life, People, Feeling, Girl

“My spirit is warmed up with the visions of my destiny; while my heart is burning with the desires to achieve them all. Those thoughts have produced a thick smoke that's clouding my mind from focusing in the present moment.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

People

“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

Love, Life, Beauty, Music

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Faith, God

“Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Heartbreaking

“Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Vibe magazine interview (February 1996)

War

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

For Team, Leadership, Good Morning, Business

“Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
Of anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.

Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry.”

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger

Source: Dragonsinger

World, Soul, Cry, Night

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.”

Stephen King book The Body

Different Seasons (1982), The Body

Love, People, Lie, Secret

“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

Thomas Moore Come

Come, ye Disconsolate.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold; for gold is cold & lifeless - it can neither see nor hear, in time of trouble its powerless to cheer — it has no ears to listen, no heart to understand, it cannot bring you comfort or reach out a helping hand. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if sends not diamonds, pearls or riches but the love of real true friends.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Response to Harold Bell, question about his view on friendship in an Interview (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSFYdFaS3E.

Love, God, Friendship, Mountain

“Life isn't about how popular you are… What girl or boy you are dating or who you know.Life is about always being true to who you are or what you believe in. Never let anyone convince you that their way is better than your way. In the end all we have is our hearts… and our minds. This is the reason we sing… this is the reason we cry… this is why we live.”

Andrew Biersack (1990) American singer-songwriter

Life, Way, Girl, Boy

“I have a big heart and a small brain. ”

Ville Valo (1976) Finnish rock musician

“All the holy scriptures are useless without people having faith into their hearts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Faith, People

“Just as every vessel is not the same, therefore, enlightenment will also vary according to your patience, heart, mind, and body whenever it comes to endure challenges in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Patience

“After knowing that the sun neither sets nor rises except for our imaginations and the limitations of our planet Earth, there can be no more mood swings in the heart and mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Imagination, Sun, Mood

“Notice the people
who
are happy for your happiness
and
sad for your sadness.
They
are
the
ones
who deserve a special place
in your heart.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Happiness, People, Sadness

“Yesterday I fell in love,
today feels like my funeral,
I just got hit by a bus,
shouldn't have been so beautiful,
dont know why I gave my heart,
gave my trust,
gave everything.”

Chris Brown (1989) American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor , and painter

Love, Beauty, Feeling

“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

Music, Feeling, Thinking

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: Revolutionary Petunias

love, Relationship, Cute, Wedding

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Love, Fate, People

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
… live in the question.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

Question, Patience

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Dreams

“I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.”

Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

For Father

“Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Variant: Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You do not have to have a college degree to serve. You do not have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Love, Soul

“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”

Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States

“There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.”

James Doolittle (1896–1993) United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

“I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.

Deep, Inspirational, Beauty, love

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Music, Tear

“I would regard meanings given by others so far as refreshing boon,
I would still be enamored of rose or any heartless flower's smell
if tender tides of your affection had not suffused
the pollen of my heart with loving aroma.”

Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist

You are, as You are https://allpoetry.com/poem/11313676-You-are--as-You-are--by-Suman-Pokhrel/ From Poetry

Love, Flowers

“I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too,”

Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
Context: I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

“The worst thing a boy can do is ignore a girl when she's loving you with all her heart.”

Liam Payne (1993) English singer and songwriter

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne

Love, Girl, Boy

“I can’t believe how fast 20 years went by. I mean, this is crazy… To be standing here, standing on the court with my teammates behind me, and appreciate this journey that we’ve been along… I grew up a die heart—I mean it—a die heart Laker fan. Die heart. I mean, I knew everything about every players’ that had played here. So, to be drafted, and then traded to this organization, and to spend 20 years here, I mean, you can’t write something better than this… The thing that had me crackin’ me up all night long was, in fact, I go though 20 years of everybody screaming, ‘pass the ball!’ and I was like, ‘No passing!’ (laugh)… (I also have to thank) my family: my wife, Vanessa, my daughters, Natalia and Gianna. Thank you guys for your sacrifice… What can I say? Mamba Out!”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.

Family, Night, Daughters, Guy

“Listen,
if stars are still lit it means there is someone who needs them.
It means someone wants to love,
Why then do we feel so much pain and heaviness of heart?
are we waiting for something, regretting anything?
To whom I can strech out my hand in the somber desert?
Who will accompany me on the empty night?
Who will give me a fiery day?
Who will bring back the sea that left?
No hope here. Torment is certain.
Without sacredness in the emptiness of this world of ours,
the heart of man fades like a flower.
Suddenly, the shuddering of the heavens penetrating my soul,
Oh never let the parting sun, no star is ever lost we once have seen, the long rains will continue to fall.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: Song THE HEART OF MAN

Soul, Pain, Waiting, Night

“If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

José Baroja book El hombre del terrón de azúcar y otros cuentos

Decision, Life

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights
Context: I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

Death, People, Feeling

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Star

“they say that time heals all things,
they say you can always forget;
but the smiles and the tears across the years
they twist my heart strings yet!”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Smile, Tear, Time, Forgetting

“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Flowers

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

People

“If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

Source: The Last Temptation of Christ

Love

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)

Funny

“Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."
"You aregoing to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?"
"You would've done the same for me."
It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order

This quote was actually composed by Louis Nizer, and published in his book, Between You and Me (1948).
Misattributed
Variant: He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

At the funeral of his first wife, Kato Svanidze, on 25 November 1907, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 193
Contemporary witnesses

Feeling