Heart Quotes

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Human, Another, Means

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Speech, Remains

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Country, Speech

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Speak, Speaks

The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron

Live, Broken, Break

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
Phyllis Battelle

Life, Saying, Broken

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody, Hold, Poets

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.
Sandra Bullock

Person, Whether, Falling

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

Life, Death, Someone

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
Suge Knight

Time, Mind, Down

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh

Men, Artist, Warm

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac

Time, Pain, Girl

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, Sunshine, Whether

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

Happiness, Woman, Made

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Smile, Everybody, Key

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams

Human, Through, Road

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth

Love, Good, Understand

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland

Love, Woman, May

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Mason Cooley

Change, Blessings, Sense

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville

Hate, Down, Whole

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
George W. Bush

Life, Accept, Turn

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt

Respect, Human, May

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Michelangelo

Love, Beauty, End

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles

Bad, Everything, Him

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats

Great, Christian, Earth

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Woman, Fire

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Chekhov

Life, Human, Become

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Good, Pure, Soup

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Equality, Give

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