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Quotes About Heart

Andrew [Haswell Green]...thought of his impending travel on the brig. Of Samuel Tilden. Of why the friendship had vanished, the errors he must have made, too many signs of affection, or of desperation, neediness, the most appalling of all impressions to make on a fellow man. His only available course now was to put distance between his failures and his future, tighten the stranglehold on his feelings, and harden his heart protectively against the pain of further great mistakes.
~ Jonathan Lee
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.
~ Jonathan Lethem
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it.
~ Jonathan Littell
She said, "Look down at your chest." I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart. "You are one second away from death," said the caller.
~ Jonathan Maberry
No one replied to that. It was a hopeful statement, but hope seemed to be lying dead somewhere out in the Ruin. For Benny, hope had died with a little girl back at Sanctuary. He looked for some inside his heart, but all he found there was a dark and murderous rage.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years.
~ Jonathan Rice
On this, the Mishna comments: "Did the hands of Moses make or break war? Rather, the text implies that whenever the Israelites looked up and dedicated their hearts to their Father in heaven, they prevailed, but otherwise they fell" (Mishna Rosh HaShana 3:8).
~ Jonathan Sacks
On fine days he knew she was painting in her hut so he tried to avoid that high part of the headland, that part where his heart lay.
~ Jonathan Smith
It's a common misconception that places that have suffered psychic trauma must look sinister, too, with gaping windows, creaking doors, and walls twisted subtly out of shape. As with people, so with houses—a smiling, innocuous exterior can conceal the blackest heart, and
~ Jonathan Stroud
Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit [Where savage indignation can lacerate his heart no more].
~ Jonathan Swift
Behold his funeral appears,Nor widow's sighs, nor orphan's tears,Wont at such times each heart to pierce,Attend the progress of his hearse.And what of that? his friends may say,He had those honors in his day.True to his profit and his pride,He made them weep before he died.
~ Jonathan Swift
It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago.
~ Jonathan Tropper
As always, the first instant he sees her, he can feel his heart shut down, the way you do in those first moment after impact, or, he supposes, when you're drowning. Love or panic. The two have always been fairly indistinguishable to him.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Seven hearts the journey make. Seven ways the hearts will break. Bravest heart will carry on When sleep is death, and hope is gone. Look in the fiery jaws of fear And see the answer white and clear, Then throw away all thoughts of home, For only then your quest is done.
~ Emily Rodda
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
~ Eminem
My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?
~ Emir Kusturica
It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.
~ Emma Bull
Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows.
~ Emmanuel
le parole esprimono meno bene del silenzio, in questi momenti, ciò che il cuore vuole dire.
~ Emmanuel Mounier
The blood around men's heart is their thinking.
~ Empedocles
In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.
~ Enid Bagnold
Long, long journey through the darkness Long, long way to go But what are miles across the ocean To the heart that's coming home?
~ Enya
Each heart is a pilgrim, Each one wants to know The reason why the winds die And where the stories go. Pilgrim, in your journey You may travel far, For pilgrim it's a long way To find out who you are...
~ Enya