Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophia Bush

Beauty has nothing to do with the size you wear. It has to do with what's in your heart.

Solomon Northup

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.

Tea Obreht

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

Tea Obreht

Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.

Taylor Swift

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

Stanley Kunitz

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

Stanley Kunitz

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

Stanley Kunitz

How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

Stacy London

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

Soren Kierkegaard

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Soren Kierkegaard

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

Stephen Vincent Benet

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Stephenie Meyer

I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.

Stephenie Meyer

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

Stephenie Meyer

Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.

Stephenie Meyer

Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

Stephenie Meyer

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.

Stephenie Meyer

And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable.

Stephenie Meyer

What happens when you lose your heart's desire?

Stephenie Meyer

My heart hasn't beat in almost ninety years but this was different it was like my heart was gone like I was hallow like I'd left everything here with you.

Marcus Aurelius

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

Marcus Aurelius

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Marcus Aurelius

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

Marc Jacobs

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Marc Maron

For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.