Quotes about heart
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“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Happiness, Beauty, Boy, Appearance

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Kiss

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The Powerbook (2000)

Love, Life, Happiness, Truth

“So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Decision

“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Smile, Feeling

“As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks

For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

Love, People

“If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

Anger

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love

“He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Fever

Hope, Time

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Life, Men, Books, Age

“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade?”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

“Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Food, Music, Sense, Singing

“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?"
"Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me,
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you're lagging,
I may remember him!”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Love, p. 172
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Light, Night, Forgetting

“No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Age

“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

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Way, Mood, Change, Parting

“My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,
Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,
But soft… behold!
A sunlight beam
Butting a swath of glimmering gleam.
My heart expands,
'tis grown a bulge in it,
Inspired by your beauty…
Effulgent.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Beauty, Color, Soul, Clothes

“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Life, Happiness, Water

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Source: Wizard and Glass

“Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Light, Fight

“Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Heart of the Matter

Fear, Disappointment, Forgiveness, Anger

“First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start.”

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Variant: First with the head, then with the heart.
Source: The Power of One

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Imagination

“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

Life, World, Tree

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright

Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little

Love

“We have
Not one
In common
No two
Are shaped alike
The third
Because of that eye we lack
In the fourth
Direction there is hope
The fifth Is at the heart
-Orihime Inoue”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 27 [Burīchi 27]

Hope

“We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.”

Lauren Child (1965) author and illustrator especially known for Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean, and My Uncle is a Hunkle

For Him, For Boyfriend

“You've always had me… and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Soul

“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)

Reality, Sea

“She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Way

“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”

Will Christopher Baer (1966) American writer

“If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.”

Brian L. Weiss

Source: Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited

People

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Pain, Disappointment, Success

“He took a step closer. "I don't know if I'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have this… feeling. That you'll always be there. Here." Conrad clawed at his heart and then dropped his hand.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Feeling

“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.-
-"And?"
And it makes you vulnerable.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

Pain, Loss, Anger

“I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: A Secret Affair

Beauty

“Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.”

Gail Carson Levine The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Hope, Courage, Victory

“You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

Sun

“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Parting

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Oceans of Fire

Truth, Lie

“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Love, Men, Pain, Beauty

“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Heartbreaking

“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

Terry Brooks book The Sword of Shannara

Source: The Sword of Shannara

Men, Truth, Peace, Soul

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”

Carolyn Parkhurst The Dogs of Babel

Source: The Dogs of Babel

Dreams, Color, Sleep

“People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

People, Feeling

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four, Pappin
Context: I am a free man-and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion. I need sunshine and paving tones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me. Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to anyone, I would've responsible to God alone-if he exited!

Music, Despair

“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

Max Weber book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Imagination

“What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Time

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

People, Hurt

“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

Reality, Memory

“Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.”

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

Travel, Parting

“You’re not dead,
but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia,
caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beat-
ing heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me.
I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Variant: You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.
Source: Wintergirls

World, Dead