Quotes on Heart

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

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

Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

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.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.