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Heart Quotes


"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"


"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."


"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."


"That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me."


"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited."


"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."


"All grand thoughts come from the heart."


"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame."


"Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way."


"How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart."


"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."


"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by."


"Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart."


"The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close."


"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series."


"Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have."


"I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few."


"I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend."


"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."


"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."


"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."


"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."


"The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone."


"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."


"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."
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