“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.”

“"And when we die,
All’s over that is ours; and life burns on
Through other lovers, other lips," said I
—"Heart of my heart, our heaven is now, is won!"
"We are earth’s best, that learnt her lesson here,
Life is our cry. We have kept the faith!" we said.”

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) British poet

“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle”

Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch

“The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.”

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

“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

“What if this right now is our last time? Our last moment to do something for our families, and our country? Did we live up to the values we say we believe? Did we do all we really could?”

Ted Cruz (1970) American politician

“From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

“Love of life, which departs last from the heart.”
Qui mente novissimus exit, lucis amor.

Statius book Thebaid

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“His heart still seemed to ache, the way an overstrained muscle twinged when one put weight on it. Like muscle strain, it would pass with a little rest, he suspected.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga