Heart Quotes

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"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, Poet

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf"

William James, Philosopher

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling"

William James, Philosopher

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life"

St. Jerome, Saint

"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart"

Richard Adams, Clergyman

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be"

Anatole France, Novelist

"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers"

Lucretius, Poet

"A man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but a man who is still a socialist at forty has no head"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart"

Michael Caine, Actor

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The day breaks not, it is my heart"

John Donne, Poet

"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"

Robert Browning, Poet

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