Heart Quotes

She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.

~ Josephine Angelini

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

~ Jodi Picoult

Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.

~ Lao Tzu

Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.

~ Ian Mcewan

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart

~ Molly Mcadams

What is this heart? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?~ulquiorra

~ Tite Kubo

The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.

~ Alessandra Torre

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the heart's treasure, together we set sail With no maps to guide us, we steered our own course Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope Working together, we learned how to cope. Life is an ocean and love it a boat In troubled waters it keeps us afloat When we started the voyage there was just me and you Now gathered round us we have our own crew Together we're in this relationship We built it with care to last the whole trip Our true destination's not marked on any chart We're navigating the shores of the heart

~ John Mcdermott

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

~ James Boswell

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

~ Lisa Kleypas

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

~ Heather O'neill

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

~ Donna Tartt

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

~ Amit Abraham

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

~ Mark Twain

You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.

~ Julian Barnes

Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.

~ Nalini Singh

To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently―charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

~ Pat Conroy

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.

~ Lisa Kleypas

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

~ Charles Dickens

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

~ Amit Ray

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.

~ Abbi Glines

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

~ John Geddes

love being such, or such,the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark

~ E.e. Cummings

She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

~ Thomas More

Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart

~ Becca Ritchie

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

~ Clamp

This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

~ Jerry Spinelli

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.

~ Christine Feehan

You can trust bad liars.

~ Toba Beta

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Nothing shakes the smiling heart.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

~ Philip Reeve

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.

~ Gustave Flaubert