Quotes about heart page 23
“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
“Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?”
Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
Source: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.”
Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer
“It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.”
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Source: Threshold
“My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802)
The last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
Context: My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Jodi Picoult book The Pact
Variant: The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Source: The Pact
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
International Herald Tribune (21 February 1990)
Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist
Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy
Source: Fall of Kings
“My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
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
“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”
Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I believe everyone has this fuckin' poem in his heart.”
Bill Hicks book Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Source: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Article on Biography.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
“When he watched her sleeping, he often thought, My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest.”
Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate
Variant: I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.
Source: Blood and Chocolate
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/ <br class="br">1876 - 1895
“The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Sheldon Vanauken (1914–1996) American journalist
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
Donna Jo Napoli (1948) American children's writer and linguist
Source: Sirena
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Independence Day address (1821)
Context: America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet on her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
“Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others”
Leonard Cohen book The Energy of Slaves
Source: The Energy of Slaves
“What happens in the heart, simply happens”
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
“Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.”
Michael Gilbert (1912–2006) Author
Source: Perfected Sinfulness
“Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
St. 24. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)
“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”
Amy Tan book Saving Fish from Drowning
Source: Saving Fish from Drowning
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
Context: His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Variant: There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Isabelle to Alec, pg. 10
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer
Source: The Running Dream