Quotes about heart
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“The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody”

Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist

Sincerity

“If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variant: If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk

“Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.”

Gene Simmons (1949) Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor

“The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
(Analects 4.9)”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Way, Clothes

“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

World, Dreams

“I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

“Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Hope

“I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Pain, Parting

“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

Love, Bird

“Fortunate is the one who knows the name of their heart. They are the ones whose hearts are never truly lost. They can always call their heart back home.
Do you remember the name of your heart, Simon Lewis?”
“I think so,” Simon whispered.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Bitter of Tongue

Home, Thinking

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Girl

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Love, Men

“There are few takers for the quiet heart.”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

“Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello
Variant: I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast

Past

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Love

“Speech is the voice of the heart.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”

James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Variant: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name

Imagination

“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author

Nature, Time

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Thinking

“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”

Sheri Reynolds book The Rapture of Canaan

Source: The Rapture of Canaan

Love

“If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life, God

“Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Suffering

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

Tess Gerritsen (1953) Chinese-American novelist

Source: Keeping The Dead

Night

“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Lie, Personality, Cooking

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

Love, Learning

“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”

Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Smile, Soul, Game, Revenge

“One day you'll have a quiet heart.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

The Neon Rain

“Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Home, Game, Hurt

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Dreams, Sleep, Suffering

“Jace told me once you’d walk all over my heart in high-heeled boots, and it hasn’t stopped me.
Isabelle gave a little gasp of startled laughter. “He said that? And you stuck around?”
He leaned in toward her … “I would consider it an honor.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Laughter

“When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Happiness, Idea, Painting

“Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Girl

“You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)”

Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Soul, Solitude

“Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.”

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

Personality

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

Star, Tear, Water, Sea

“My heart hurts that means I’m alive.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Stigma

Hurt

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Love, Change

“You love her. (Shanus)
I barely know her. (Wulf)
Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Love, Time

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”

Anne Enright The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“Single Mind:
If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Love

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”

Jodi Picoult book Harvesting the Heart

Source: Harvesting the Heart

Truth, Personality

“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer

Source: Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny

World, Chance, Cry

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea (2005, ISBN 0-330-48328-5.

Past

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

Thinking

“You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Daughters

“I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People, Thinking, Heartbreaking, Hurtful

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Soul

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Children, Time, Hurt

“And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

Feeling

“Sometimes,' Jem said, 'our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Thinking, Change, Time

“I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She would'nt do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

“How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Forgetting

“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Love, Hope

“There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Wicked Intentions

“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”

Richard Russo Empire Falls

Source: Empire Falls

People, World, Time

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Happiness

“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.”

Lisa Papademetriou (1971) American writer

Source: Siren's Storm

Men

“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

James Thurber book The 13 Clocks

Source: The 13 Clocks

Sadness, Feeling

“If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Dreams, Imagination

“Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Love, Hate

“My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

"Travel", st. 3, Second April, 1921
Source: The Selected Poetry

Training

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)

Truth

“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Women, God

“Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant… everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Life

“I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Understanding

“And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: Deep Green: Color Me Jealous

Happiness, Smile

“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

Love, Life, Dead

“Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Beauty, Way

“Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah, I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?"

He looked at her. "I believe in you.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Study, Time

“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Source: Being and Nothingness

“Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Youth

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

World, Hope, Change, Reading

“Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Smile

“Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

The Now of Pooh.
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)
Context: Abstract cleverness of the mind only separates the thinker from the world of reality, and that world, the Forest of Real Life, is in a desperate condition now because of too many who think too much and care too little. In spite of what many minds have thought themselves into believing, that mistake cannot continue for much longer if everything is going to survive. The one chance we have to avoid certain disaster is to change our approach, and learn to value wisdom and contentment. These are things that are being searched for anyway, through Knowledge and Cleverness, but they do not come from Knowledge and Cleverness. They never have, and they never will. We can no longer afford to look so desperately hard for something in the wrong way and in the wrong place. If Knowledge and Cleverness are allowed to go on wrecking things, they will before much longer destroy all life on this earth as we know it, and what little may temporarily survive will not be worth looking at, even if it were possible for us to do so.

Wisdom, Knowledge

“I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: History

Star, Christ

“Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Variant: Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tells me I'm not meant to.

[Vittoria Vetra]
Source: Angels & Demons

God, Understanding, Science

“Cruel of heart, lay down my song.
Your reading eyes have done me wrong.
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the mind wrung, and the song written.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Collected Poems

Reading

“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "To all nations their empire will be dreadful, because their ships will sail wherever billows roll or winds can waft them", Dalrymple, Memoirs, vol. iii, p. 152; "Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow", Charles Churchill, The Farewell, Line 38.
The Corsair (1814)