Quotes about heart page 25
“Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Pt. I, ch. 9
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles
“My mind may be American but my heart is British.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Great Learning
Context: The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
“True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.”
Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all thelyrics by heart.”
Ernest Cline book Ready Player One
Source: Ready Player One
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
I Walk the Line
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
“she is theof my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
Philip Sidney book Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
Variant: Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Source: Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Context: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”
Jean Rhys book Voyage in the Dark
Source: Voyage in the Dark
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Selected Poems
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Source: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
“I am too dark in my heart tonight.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Variant: Every heart has its own melody.
Source: Clockwork Princess
“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”
Elizabeth Kostova book The Swan Thieves
Source: The Swan Thieves
Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”
Vasily Grossman book Life and Fate
Source: Life and Fate
Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist
Source: The Naming
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.
“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside… Inside.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
Richard Yates (1926–1992) Novelist, short story writer
Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe
Paul Flanner, Chapter 16, p. 188
Source: 2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. IV, Ch. 8 (1839).
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables
Source: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XI : The Arched Window
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.”
Ariel Gore (1970) American writer
Source: Atlas of the Human Heart
Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist
Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Source: Cry, The Beloved Country
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
Source: V for Vendetta
Michael Azerrad (1961) American musician and writer
Source: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Source: The Remains of the Day
“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist
The Universal Prayer (1738)
Source: Moral Essays
“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
