Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Quotes about heart page 27
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IV : The Party; Gilbert Markham about Frederick Lawrence
“What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?”
Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan
Source: Missing Angel Juan
“The time has to be right and the heart willing.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away”
Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Source: She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Something Wonderful
“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author
Source: The Invitation
“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
Henry Miller book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist
Source: Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Vol. 1
Kyōichi Katayama (1959) Japanese writer
Source: Socrates In Love
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
“She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed.
- Kaia Skyhawk”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Variant: Simi? What was it you told me once about families?
We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.
Source: Bad Moon Rising
“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: The Holy Terrors
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet
Source: Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Variant: the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
“Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.”
Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986) Poet, writer and translator
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
“Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
Lyrics
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey book Belles on Their Toes
Source: Belles on Their Toes
Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch
Source: Son of a Witch
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses (1992)
Context: He thought he'd be an object of some curiosity but the people he saw only nodded gravely to him and passed on. He carried the bucket back into the store and went down the street to where there was a small cafe and he entered and sat at one of the three small wooden tables. The floor of the cafe was packed mud newly swept and he was the only customer. He stood the rifle against the wall and ordered huevos revueltos and a cup of chocolate and he sat and waited for it to come and then he ate very slowly. The food was rich to his taste and the chocolate was made with canela and he drank it and ordered another and folded a tortilla and ate and watched the horses standing in the square across the street and watched the girls. They'd hung the gazebo with crepe and it looked like a festooned brush-pile. The proprietor showed him great courtesy and brought him fresh tortillas hot from the comal and told him that there was to be a wedding and that it would be a pity if it rained. He inquired where he might be from and showed surprise he'd come so far. He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115
Variant: God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
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
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver
“Hearts can never be stolen, Cy. They can only be given.” – Ren”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Retribution
“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”
Ann Richards (1933–2006) American politician
Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever...
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Context: But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Washington Irving book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"The Wife".
Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Variant: But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Morgan Llywelyn book Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
Source: Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
“If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Popular Girl
