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Quotes About Heart

I have seen the breadth and depth and width of my mind and heart and seen how frail they both are, and how ultimately unknowable they both are.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It did the kind of lasting damage that only something that cuts so quick and deep to the heart can do.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The heart you speak of,' I said. 'It might indeed be the hardest part of Josie to learn. It might be like a house with many rooms. Even so, a devoted AF, given time, could walk through each of those rooms, studying them carefully in turn, until they became like her own home.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Of course, a human heart is bound to be complex. But it must be limited.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And that's why, years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
You believe in the human heart? I don't mean simply the organ, obviously. I'm speaking in a poetic sense. The human heart. Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and individual?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
each of us special and individual? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Tendrás que descifrar su corazón, aprender todo de él, o jamás conseguirás convertirte en la verdadera Josie.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Do you believe in the human heart? Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and unique? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Once your heart and mind are shattered, eternity's not so scary.
~ Ken Akamatsu
I could fall for you in a heartbeat
~ Ken Follett
Ninguem sabia o quanto ela o amava. Amava-o, porque ele a devolvera à vida. Ela vivia como uma lagarta dentro de um casulo, e Jack obrigara-a a sair cá para fora e mostrara-lhe que, afinal, era uma borboleta. (...) acordando o amor que jazia latente no seu coração, teria passado o resto da vida insensível às alegrias e penas do amor.
~ Ken Follett
Monks committed all the same sins that ordinary people did. He had just been shocked by the woman's shamelessness. The sight of her nakedness remained with him, the way the hot heart of a candle flame, stared at for a few moments, would burn on behind closed eyelids.
~ Ken Follett
The heart is that kind of map. The self is in the middle and everything else is out of proportion. You draw the friends of your youth large, then later it's impossible to rescale them when other more important people need to be added. Anyone who has done you wrong is shown too big, and so is anyone you loved.
~ Ken Follett
Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel.
~ Ken Follett
Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».
~ Ken Follett
sintió renacer un rayo de esperanza en su corazón.
~ Ken Follett
aurem cordis, the ear of the heart.
~ Ken Follett
There he saw a woman. He recognised her. She smiled. His heart stood still.
~ Ken Follett
La tormenta que había estallado en su corazón amainó ligeramente. La penumbra y el frescor del interior, entre los imponentes muros de piedra, le hicieron sentir la trascendencia de la eternidad. Los problemas terrenales eran temporales, incluso los peores: ese era el mensaje que transmitía el templo a sus visitantes. El corazón volvió a latirle con normalidad.
~ Ken Follett
Brother Godleof read the prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict: "Obsculta, o fili, praecepta magistri, et incline aurem cordis tui." Listen, my son, and turn the ear of your heart to the precepts of your master. Aldred loved the phrase aurem cordis, the ear of the heart. It suggested a way of listening more intense and thoughtful than the norm.
~ Ken Follett