Quotes About Heart

How many times, in their heart of hearts, must they not envy the doctrinal offhandedness of their enemies! The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.

The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.

Hoy, no; hoy respiramos; hoy se humedece nuestra boca achicharrada y se calma el ardor de nuestro corazón...

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

Once your heart is is order, the rest will unfold more easily.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.

Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Dying! To be afraid of theeOne must to thine ArtilleryHave left exposed a Friend—Than thine old Arrow is a ShotDelivered straighter to the HeartThe leaving Love behind.

Not with a Club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone—A Whip so small you could not see itI've knownTo lash the Magic CreatureTill it fell.

What use is it to slumber here: Though the heart be sad and weary? What use is it to slumber here Though the day rise dark and dreary?

To state the matter shortly, royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

Indeed there must have been a very deep-seated dissatisfaction with life, a very intense thirst of heart, and an almost absolute poverty of thought, to secure the acceptance of the Christian absurdity, the most audacious and monstrous of all religious absurdities.

Fictitious narrative, whether realistic or romantic, may suggest deeper truths, may tell us more about the heart of man, than all the histories that ever were written; and may tell it more agreeably. But fact has an interest, because it is fact; because it actually happened.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. While its opponent, ingratitude, is a deadly weed; not only poisonous in itself but impregnating the very atmosphere in which it grows, with fetid vapors.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

I ask no truer image of my Heavenly Father than I find reflected in my own heart -- all loving, all forgiving.

If light is the first love of life, is not love a light to the heart?

Detesto le canzonature: inaridiscono il cuore e sciupano ogni sentimento

A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.

A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

A woman's life begins with her first passion.

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.