Quotes about heart

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“You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”

“The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart.
And now my soul was crying.”

“A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.”

“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

“intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart”

“Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?”

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”

“I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.”

“To you I belong. My heart beats only for you. No other will tempt me, from this day and beyond. To you I belong.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”

“One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.”

“Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”

“My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”

“A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.”

“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

“love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly”

“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.”

“If I were the rain… that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle… Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”

“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”

“The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.”

“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”

“When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”

“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”

“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

“Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?”

“Nïx clasped her hands over her chest,
sighing, “He gave you his heart. That’s so romantic.
So much better than a candy heart.
Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.”

“Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.”

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”

“In courtesy I’d have her chiefly learned;
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those that are not entirely beautiful”

“Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.”

“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.”

“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

“I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.”

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.”

“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”

“What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.”

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

“Sentence first; verdict afterwards." -Queen of Hearts”

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”

“What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”

“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”

“Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

“Fear no more, says the heart…”

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

“… an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”

“The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.”

“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head”

“WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?

The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.

Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.”

“From bitter searching of the heart,
quickened with passion and with pain
we rise
to play a greater part
this is the faith from which we start.”

“The visions you glorify in your mind,
The ideals you enthrone in your heart..
This you will build your life by…
This you will become.”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

“How frail the human heart must be —
a mirrored pool of thought.”

“The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.”

“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”

“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”

“Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile – the winds –
To a heart in port –
Done with the compass –
Done with the chart!

Rowing in Eden –
Ah, the sea!
Might I moor – Tonight –
In thee!”

“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment”

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”

“One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.” That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead. Things will not always be like this. Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot outdream God. Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope.”

“I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.”

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

“My heart is breaking for a little love”

“Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.”

“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”

“I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay”

“My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.”

“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

“There is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart -
It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge,
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.”

“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”

“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.”

“My heart bleeds buttermilk.

-Daine”

“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”

“Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.”

“The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.”

“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”

“The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be”

“Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.”

“Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?”

“Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.”

“Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.”