Quotes about heart
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“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“How do you not know where the heart is? Especially considering how many of them you've broken?”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Tear

“It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Music

“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”

Andrew Sean Greer (1970) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Confessions Of Max Tivoli

Happiness, People, Imagination, Star

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

World

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

People

“I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me
I am sending back the key;
in his eye's darkroom I can see
my X-rayed heart, dissected body:
I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard s study.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Love, Making love, Study

“My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Pain, Angels

“every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)”

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Country, Forgetting

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Life, Secret, Water, Chance

“I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Death

“Be kind, aim for my heart.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.”

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

Pearls of Wisdom

Fools, Intelligence

“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love

“Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: I is for Innocent

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

God, Hate, Waiting, Sun

“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Dreams, Thinking, Sleep, Waiting

“To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player… The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Life, Princess

“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Way, Feeling, Question, Waiting

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Fear

“Be happy, honey. No
one deserves it more. But don't forget… I'm
keeping one little piece of your heart for myself.
And if you ever want it back… you know
where to find it.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Happiness, Forgetting

“You're up to something," I said.
He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?"
"Yeah, you”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

“A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Happiness, Joy, Parting

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Way

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Love

“Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Perfect Scoundrels

Strong

“With my life comes my heart, yours now to crush or cherish as you will. It is my hope you will have a care in keeping both.”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: Keeper of the Heart

Life, Hope

“But she stepped forward and placed a finger to his lips and there it was before him. The greatest prayer to the gods he could muster with a heart so broken.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

God

“How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence.
That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her.
Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

God

“When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Feeling

“You’re sarcastic twelve hours a day, but you’re almost never spiteful. You have a good heart under all the glitter.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Home, Star, Lovers

“Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Learning

“Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love

“Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

God, Indifference

“My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Teachers

“No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God, Dreams, Search, Suffering

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Men, Clothes

“The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.”

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Source: The Bridges of Madison County

Forgetting

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War

Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Happiness, Beauty, Fools, Sad

“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Truth, Time

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Love, Friendship

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 25
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Context: I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of a political nature, which are inevitably dualistic, full of subjects and objects and their relationship to one another; or with programs full of things for other people to do. I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. <!-- p. 304

World

“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Way

“He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.”

Thomas H. Cook (1947) American writer

Source: Master of the Delta

Question

“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
- Wizard”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Heartbreaking

“You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Love, Peace, Forgiveness

“I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.”

Ava Gardner (1922–1990) American actress

Soul

“Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love, Beauty, Idea, Freedom

“[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Ain't She Sweet

“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart. The heart was just a bloody motor. The head was meant to drive”

Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist

“Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.”

Evelyn Waugh book The Loved One

Source: The Loved One

Way

“And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”

Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer

Fate

“The emerging woman… will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied… strength and beauty must go together.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl

Beauty, Soul, Strong

“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Love, Beauty

“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Life, Soul, Memory

“Was it possible to measure what the heart felt?”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Full Moon

“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”

Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End

Source: Then We Came to the End

Jerk, Decision, Time

“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Books, World, Education, Nature

“I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,” he said softly. “And you know that.”

Diana Gabaldon book Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Love

“The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Cruel Summer

Learning

“Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Princess

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Life, Feeling, Silence, Grass

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 7

Happiness, Feeling, Wine, Sea

“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”

Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins

Source: Love in the Ruins

Love, Women, God, Beauty

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
Source: The Complete Short Stories

Time

“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Variant: When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.
Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

Love

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Men

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Sad, Heartbreaking

“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love

“As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

People, Change

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Soul, History, Evil, Change

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Peace, Communication

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Life, Happiness, Hope

“There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Depressing

“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Love, Tear, Silence, Loss

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love… I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Love, Friendship, Beauty, Thinking

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Books, Thinking, Time, Reading

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.”

Ben Sherwood book The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Love, Star, Sea, Wise

“The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls”

Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

Love, Fate, Dogs, Soul

“There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember thatmight be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.”

Darren Shan (1972) Irish writer of English-language fiction under pen name, real name Darren O'Shaughnessy

Source: Zom-B Underground

World

“you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

World

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
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Love, Star, Thinking

“She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Study

“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.”

Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer

Source: Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

People

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
Source: Life of Pi

Life