Quotations About Heart
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
The Little Prince
And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark (l. 215–216).
The Hunting of the Snark (l. 215–216).
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens
Mr. Tappertit, in Barnaby Rudge, ch. 22
Mr. Tappertit, in Barnaby Rudge, ch. 22
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
François La Rochefoucauld
Moral Maxims and Reflections
Moral Maxims and Reflections
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
William Empson
It is the pain, it is the pain, endures
It is the pain, it is the pain, endures
Groan thru breast and neck, a great Oh! to earth heart
Allen Ginsberg
Collected Poems 1947–1980
Collected Poems 1947–1980
The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
Mason Cooley
City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York
City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York
As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.
Robert Earl Hayden
A Ballad of Remembrance
A Ballad of Remembrance
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
Hilaire Belloc
"The False Heart", 1910
"The False Heart", 1910
If hands could you free you, heart, Where would you fly?
Philip Larkin
"If hands could free you, heart."
"If hands could free you, heart."
And grief stirs, and the deft Heart lies impotent.
Philip Larkin
"If grief could burn out."
"If grief could burn out."
Tears are words the heart can't express.
Unknown
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
James Earl Jones
No words are necessary between two loving hearts.
Unknown
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
Proverbs 14:13
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8
You may be able to conquer a person's tongue, but not his heart.
Unknown