Quotes about heart

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“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

“Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. But what happens when those people disappear from our lives?”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

“HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

“You are… you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.”

Juliet Marillier book Heart's Blood

“The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.”

Barry Gifford book Wild at Heart

“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”

Edith Hamilton book Mythology

“Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

“The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”

Monica Drake (1967) American writer

“What else can I do to piss you off? (Acheron)
You can leave me. (Tory)
I would never do that, Tory. No one can live without their heart and that’s what you are to me. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”

Charles Stross Saturn's Children

“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“My heart broke open and history fell in.”

Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.”

William Kent Krueger book Ordinary Grace

“The mind-is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let go with the mind-
Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me
That I need learn to let go with the heart.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

“I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade… not for the good of the world… but for myself.”

Kaori Yuki Japanese manga artist

“When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

“When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.”

Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

“The heart wants what it wants.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

“Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?”

“The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked.

“You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

“Gods, how I’ve missed you. (Stryker)
I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Reality - Dreams = Animal Being
Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)
Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)
Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism
Dreams + Humor = Fantasy
Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom”

Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

“faint heart never won fair lady”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body."
- Jean-Claude”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart”

Norman Mailer The Gospel According to the Son

“Demons don't understand human hearts, not well. They see through a distorted glass and show you what you desire, but warped and wrong. Use that wrongness to push yourself out of the dream. Life is loss, Alexander, but it's better than this.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

“if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“There is darkness in every heart.”

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

“I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

“Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.”

Robin McKinley book Rose Daughter

“What If Following Her Heart
Means Rose Could Lose Her
Best Friend Forever?”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

“The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.”

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) Japanese author

“The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

“I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

“Then
Scale by scale,
We strip off
The delicacy
And eat
The peaceful mush
Of its green heart.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.”

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

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

“Clouds pass and disperse.
Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?
Is it for such I agitate my heart?”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

“It's nice sometimes
to open up the heart a little
and let some hurt come in.
It proves you're still alive.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

“… in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

“There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.”

Joan D. Vinge book The Summer Queen

“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

“The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly.

And in my case, they're barely speaking.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

“Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

“Jesse: " Hey Rose, welcome back. Still breaking hearts?"
Rose: " Are you volunteering?”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”

Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

“Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

“So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

“The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch."

- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)”

Darren Shan book Trials of Death

“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
… they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong'
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

“And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“We are the breakers of our own hearts”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire… driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“It goes on, terrifyingly repetitive. One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.”

Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes