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

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Sadness, Time

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

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Drawing

“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.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

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

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Death

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

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Personality

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

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Feeling, Thinking

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

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

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

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Time

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

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

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

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

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

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Books

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

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

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.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Lie, Imagination

“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.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Red Bird

Life, Business

“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.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Hope, Thinking

“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”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Love, Future

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

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

People

“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.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: A Secret Affair

Flowers

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

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet

Women

“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)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Love, People, Forgiveness

“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.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Beauty, Boy, Kiss

“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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

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

James Cameron (1954) Canadian film director

Source: James Cameron's Titanic

Secret

“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.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Source: Good Morning, America

Music, Silence

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

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

Meg Cabot book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

Smile, Guy

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“The heart that gives, gathers.”

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, World, Relationship, Good Night

“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.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love, Death

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Decision, Learning

“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”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Light, Night

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

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

Men

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

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

For Mother

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

Eric Sevareid (1912–1992) American journalist

Christmas, Christmas

“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.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Time

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

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

“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?”

Jeanette Winterson book Gut Symmetries

Source: Gut Symmetries

Feeling, Strong

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

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Jud speaking to Louis, after the burying the cat
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)
Context: They are secret things. Women are supposed to be the ones good at keeping secrets, and I guess they do keep a few, but any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she's never really seen into any man's heart. The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis - like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground. Bedrock's close. A man grows what he can... and he tends it.

“Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Truth