Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

Haruki Murakami

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

Haruki Murakami

She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

Haruki Murakami

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Hans Zimmer

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

Harlan Coben

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

Harlan Coben

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

Harlan Coben

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

Harlan Coben

I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

Gustav Stickley

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

Gustave Flaubert

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.

Gustave Flaubert

For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

Gustave Flaubert

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

Gustave Flaubert

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

Gustave Flaubert

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Gustave Flaubert

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Gustave Flaubert

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

Greg Abbott

Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.

Grantland Rice

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Greg Behrendt

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.

Greg Behrendt

Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything related to his feelings for you

Gordon Parks

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

Gordon Lightfoot

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility in other people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

John Eldredge

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

John Eldredge

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

John Eldredge

The heart is God's most magnificent creation, and the prize over which he fights the kingdom of darkness. Now consider this - marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.