Quotes About Heart

We don't think about that enough. We spend too much time cursing time—time waits for no man, time will tell, oh, the ravages of time, time flies! We don't think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better than we have ever done in the past. Time gives us the chance to be sorry when we fail and the chance to try to discover in ourselves a new heart.

Lestat might be the hero of the Vampire Chronicles, but this one, Louis, was the tragic heart. Yet he seemed at long last to have achieved a kind of peace with the ghastly realities of his existence and the existence of all those around him who outranked him in power but not necessarily in insight or wisdom.

One can kill the gifts one is given, any of them and all of them, if one is determined to do so, and pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

And there is another kind of strength in you. A daring, and a hunger, and aloneness. And that hunger and aloneness I know, and I kiss with the lips I do not have; I hold with the arms I do not have; I press to the heart in me that isn't there to beat with warmth.

Master of His Choir of Angels, that is Mozart; but Beethoven is the Master of My Dark Heart, the captain of my broken life and all my failures.

And pain was pain, whether physical or mental. Not the wisest of men or women or Taltos would ever know which was worse—the pain of the heart or the pain of the flesh.

I love; therefore I am.

It seemed to me in my wild and passionate soul, in my newborn vampiric heart, that the Magi had come only for Christ's birth but for my rebirth as well.

I cannot pretend to be the mortal that once refused Lestat. I cannot reach back and claim that being's reimaginative heart.

There was no place for the poetry or history which had come from a greedy mind and heart.

It was as though on the smell of the rain came her perfume still, and in the empty theater I could hear the throb of her beating heart.

You do not want secrets which can be ripped from your heart.

with all my black little heart, LeStat De Lioncourt - Queen of the Damned -

I was part of life once more and my heart was beating to a human pace.

Mozart was always my happy guardian, the Little Genius, I called him, Master of His Choir of Angels, that is Mozart; but Beethoven is the Master of My Dark Heart, the captain of my broken life and all my failures.

El orgullo engendra siempre destrucción: el orgullo engulle vivos la mente y el corazón y el alma.

is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

We did not speak of it, you understand, but I knew that it was the figure of his father who reigned in Amadeo's heart. It was the figure of that powerful bearded man who had so vigorously fought for life rather death within the monastery who held supremacy over conflicts that Amadeo was ever to know.

Ah, the loneliness, the unspeakable loneliness, how it presses on the heart.

All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.

He would die at her hands. He knew it, with sudden lightening clarity. The man he had struggled so hard to become, the all-powerful, all-knowing Simon of Navarre, would be destroyed by a woman's heart.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.