Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

Victor Hugo

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Victor Hugo

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

Victor Hugo

The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

Victor Hugo

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Victor Hugo

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

Victor Hugo

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

Victor Hugo

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Victor Hugo

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Vernor Vinge

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Vernon Howard

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

Veronica Roth

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

Veronica Roth

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Richard Bach

It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that.

Robert Fripp

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

Robert Frost

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

Robert Frost

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Robert Fulghum

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Robert Fulghum

I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.

Robert Fulghum

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Robert Bloch

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Rita Hayworth

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

Rita Mae Brown

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Rick Majerus

I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.

Richard Wagner

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Richard Wagner

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Richard Wagner

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Richard MacDonald

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

Richard Matheson

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

Richard Eberhart

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

Richard E. Grant

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

Renee O'Connor

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.