"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms."

Heart, Childhood, Mourning, Years

61

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms."

Exlpore more Heart quotes

"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."

Dennis Prager, American Journalist

Heart, Competition, Corporations, Police

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Heart, Joy, Mind

"So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes."

Mika Waltari, Finnish Author

Heart, Eyes, Man, Will

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Heart, Prayer, Words

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Heart, Eye, Fashion, Open

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Heart, Eyes, Will

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Heart, Charm, Tenderness

"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

Heart, Attention, Being, Mind

"They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings."

John Ford, English Dramatist

Heart,

"Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound."

Voltaire, French Writer

Heart, Country

Explore more quotes by William Gibson

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."

Technology

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."

Being

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

Future

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."

Dream

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."

Future

"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."

Old

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

People

"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."

Technology

"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."

Experience

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

Certainty