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Quotes About Hearts

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
~ Patrick Süskind
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
~ John Owen
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
~ Algernon Blackwood
As far as the laws of probability, my lady, these cannot be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and those rules are written in our hearts, in a deep place where we cannot go and read them except in our dreams.
~ Neal Stephenson
And though later he came pretending friendship, the alliance with man would ever be but fragile, for the fear he'd struck into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged.
~ Nicholas Evans
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
~ James Branch Cabell
In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.
~ Upton Sinclair
They were shaken to the depths of them, with the awe of love realized; and was it so very weak of them that they cried for a little peace? They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them?
~ Upton Sinclair
Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law.
~ Upton Sinclair
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded. Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the very struggle of progress.
~ Victor Hugo
El provenir es mucho más de los corazones que de las mentes. Amar, eso es lo único que puede ocupar y colmar la eternidad. El infinito precisa de lo inagotable.
~ Victor Hugo
Ah, the Springtime, when we think of all the lays That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays, Of the fond hearts within a billet bound, Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound, The messages of love that mortals write Filled with intoxication of delight… — The Genesis of Butterflies
~ Victor Hugo
Mind wandering is a gift; by it, the Lord shows us the treasures of our hearts. Our call is to bring this to the Lord, who meets us in the truth of ourselves as ones who need grace and mercy in these very places.
~ Kyle Strobel
Exista atatea feluri de a iubi cate inimi sunt
~ L. N. Tolstoi
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.
~ la bruyere jean de vii
As she began to doze, she wondered if when you rode in airplanes, love, even old impossible love, sent hearts tumbling end over end.
~ Laird Hunt
My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed
~ Cassandra Clare
We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.
~ Cassandra Clare
Changing the laws of a country is not the same as changing its hearts and minds.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
My objective was to awaken their hearts to the ideas dormant there, rather than to implant facts into their memory.
~ Geraldine Brooks
We are blind to God unless he shines his light in our hearts. We are terrified of him unless he reveals his love. We are lost from him unless he makes a way.
~ Gerrit Scott Dawson
May love and faith eternal reign in both our hearts. - Rosina
~ Gioachino Rossini