Heart Quotes

"My peace is gone, my heart is heavy."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."
-Abraham Lincoln

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."
-Mark Twain

"A light heart lives long."
-Irish Proverb

"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
-Anne Frank

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue."
-Persian Proverb

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
-Scott Westerfeld

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography."
-Robert Byrne

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
-Charlotte Bronte

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."
-Charles W. Chesnutt

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe."
-Anne Bronte

"It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now."
-Allen Ginsberg

"If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry."
-H. H. Swami Tejomayananda

"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours."
-Mary Schmich

"Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people."
-Bernard M. Baruch

"The logic of the heart is absurd."
-Julie De Lespinasse

"My heart is dead but the dead still cries."
-Larry Kelly

"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
-Ovid

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
-Willa Sibert Cather

"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."
-William Cowper

"The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale."
-Dr. Richard Selzer

"The heart is forever making the head its fool."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart."
-Robert Burton

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe