Quotes about heart

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“We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.”

“Jolie laide = "pretty ugly"
Draws you to it… bored into heart and mind.”

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”

“The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.”

“You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?”

“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.”

“Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)”

“Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.”

“He had been through a hundred heartbreaks, but he found himself afraid when he thought of Alexander Lightwood breaking his heart.”

“Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.”

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”

“I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.”

“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”

“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”

“It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.”

“They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other”

“Record things in your heart. It’s more important than trying to show people what you’re experiencing.”

“Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.”

“All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.”

“You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You’d be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron)”

“I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.”

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”

“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”

“There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always.
If the music dies down there is a silence.
Almost the same as the movement of music.
To know silence perfectly is to know music.”

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

“Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?”

“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”

“The heart that gives, gathers.”

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark beating heart,
I know. He'd have loved it alright.
You see?
Even Death Has A Heart.”

“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

“But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night”

“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”

“What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.”

“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”

“Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.”

“A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.”

“I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?”

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”

“Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth”

“When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.”

“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

“It's not the gods
But our own hearts
We need to fear.
The evil starts
Against all odds
Not there but here.”

“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.”

“It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.”

“I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.”

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”

“I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in… It broke.”

“A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book.”

“Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)”

“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”

“Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.”

“Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?”

“This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes”

“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”

“She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord… I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.”

“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”

“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”

“To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”

“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

“I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.”

“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”

“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”

“My heart has been stolen by you.”

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.”

“Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”

“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

“A heart's a heavy burden.”

“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

“The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?”

“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”

“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”

“My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.”

“God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.”

“.. then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you…”

“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts”

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

“I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.”

“Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.”

“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”

“It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.”

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”

“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.”

“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men”

“He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.”

“Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.

Love is a fool star.

You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.

Love is a fool star.”

“His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me.
I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm,
I knew again what peace could be.”

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”

“So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart”

“The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.”

“Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.”

“Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting
If I could hear his heart softly pounding
Yes, and only if he was lying by me
Would I lie in my bed once again.”

“We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ⎼ for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.”

“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”