Quotes about heart
heart color should-have
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
heart buried
THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED. Samuel Hoffenstein
heart years long
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart. Samuel Lover
heart serious heart-attack
I'm as serious as a heart attack. Samuel L. Jackson
heart language has-beens
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many. Samuel Beckett
heart dripping
Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head. Samuel Beckett
heart spirit break
It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent. Salma Hayek
heart thinking blue
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black. Salman Rushdie
heart break realism
Realism can break a writer's heart. Salman Rushdie
heart thinking self
The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being. Salman Rushdie
heart giving attention
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention. Salman Rushdie
heart democracy mature
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. Salman Rushdie
heart community able
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart. Salman Rushdie
heart my-heart broke
My heart broke open and history fell in. Salman Rushdie
heart imagination literature
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie
heart earthquakes return
Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force. Salman Rushdie
heart army loss
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth? Salman Rushdie
heart would-be symbols
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline! Rudolph Valentino
heart tragedy finals
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio Rudolfo Anaya
heart people magic
It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts. Rudolfo Anaya
heart mind unpredictable
The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart. Rudy Rucker
heart problem reason
Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems. Whitney Houston
heart years mind
My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Wendy Cope
heart mind my-heart
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. Wendy Cope
heart my-heart
I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often. Waris Ahluwalia
heart desire machines
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. W. G. Sebald
heart winning blood
Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round! W. S. Gilbert
heart crooked neighbour
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. W. H. Auden
heart giving ashes
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods. W. H. Auden
heart tears may
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. W. H. Auden
heart men errors
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone. W. H. Auden
heart healing night
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. W. H. Auden
heart bears forgotten
And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W. H. Auden