Source: Tiger Lily
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.”
Source: The Witches of Eileanan
“I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams”
“1. Your heart starts hurting when you think about him.”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), It Ain't Me Babe
Context: Go away from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed,
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're looking for someone,
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you and defend you,
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.”
Source: Drowning Instinct
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
(19 September 1777)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Variant: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
As translated by William Scott Wilson. This first sentence of this passage was used as a military slogan during the early 20th century to encourage soldiers to throw themselves into battle. Variant translations:
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning. Move on with determination. To say dying without attaining ones aim is a foolish sacrifice of life is the flippant attitude of the sophisticates in the Kamigata area. In such a case it is difficult to make the right judgement. No one longs for death. We can speculate on whatever we like. But if we live without having attaining that aim, we are cowards. This is an important point and the correct path of the Samurai. When we calmly think of death morning and evening and are in despair, We are able to gain freedom in the way of the Samurai. Only then can we fulfil our duty without making mistakes in life.
By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
The way of the Samurai is in death.
I have found the essence of Bushido: to die!
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.
“My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
Letters and essays
Context: When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.”
Source: Sunset Gun: Poems
“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
“The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
Source: Sentimental Education
“When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.”
Quoted in "The Way of Transition : Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments" (2002) by William Bridges, p. 204
Source: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 1.
“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
Source: Talulla Rising
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over”
Source: The Zahir
“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”
Source: Stranger than Fiction
“The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.”
Source: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“… when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.”
Source: Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“I followed my heart without breaking any rules.”
Source: Little Women
“My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.”
Source: Even Vampires Get the Blues
Source: The God of Small Things
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.”
Source: Twenty Wishes
