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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


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).


There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens
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


My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
William Empson
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


The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
Mason Cooley
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


I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
Hilaire Belloc
"The False Heart", 1910


If hands could you free you, heart, Where would you fly?
Philip Larkin
"If hands could free you, heart."


And grief stirs, and the deft Heart lies impotent.
Philip Larkin
"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