Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Watts

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

George Muller

The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.

Edmond de Goncourt

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Edith Piaf

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

Anne Lamott

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

Anne Lamott

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Ann Wilson

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

Anna Akhmatova

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Anna Akhmatova

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

Ann Voskamp

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Ann Voskamp

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Ann Voskamp

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

Ann Voskamp

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Albert Schweitzer

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

Alane Ferguson

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

Albert Camus

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Albert Camus

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.

Albert Camus

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Albert Camus

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

Albert Camus

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Albert Camus

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

Albert Camus

We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

Albert Camus

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

Albert Camus

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

Albert Camus

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

Albert Camus

There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

Albert Camus

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Albert Camus

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

Albert Camus

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Albert Camus

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

Albert Camus

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe