Human Heart Quotes

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places.
By a hearth at night, as a girl leaves a bit of cheese for a hungry mouse.
In a slaughter yard, as the old and infirm, the weak and discarded, are made to matter more than money.
In a poor carpenter's small attic room, where three sisters learned that the price of forgiveness is forgiving.
And now, on a battlefield, as a mere girl tries to turn the red tide of war.
It is the magic of a frail and fallible creature, one capable of both unspeakable cruelty and immense kindness. It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us. To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it.
It is the magic of the human heart.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

“There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places....It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us. To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it.
It is the magic of the human heart.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

“He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Only hardship softens the hardness of the human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The human Heart to be allegorized as a cavern; at the entrance there is sunshine, and flowers growing about it. You step within, but a short distance, and begin to find yourself surrounded with a terrible gloom, and monsters of divers kinds; it seems like Hell itself. You are bewildered and wander long without hope. At last a light strikes upon you. You press towards it yon, and find yourself in a region that seems, in some sort, to reproduce the flowers and sunny beauty of the entrance, but all perfect. These are the depths of the heart, or of human nature, bright and peaceful; the gloom and terror may lie deep; but deeper still is this eternal beauty.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition

“Before coronapocalypse, people were so distracted by items presenting themselves throughout life; items that really do not matter. Noise for the mind. Ways to distract the heart. Escape goats, scapegoats (work, projects, moving targets, parties) for getting away from conditions of the soul and heart that must be fully faced and dealt with. Now there are no more distractions, noise evaporated. Everyone must face their truth now: their Demons and their Angels.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Happiness is heaven in human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The human heart weights (on average) eleven ounces and beats (approximately) one hundred thousand times per day.
In Ancient Greece, the theory was widely held that, as the most powerful and vital part of the body, the heart acted as a brain of sorts- collecting information from all other organs through the circulatory system. Aristotle included thoughts and emotions in his hypotheses relating to the aforementioned information- a fact that modern scientists find quaint in its lack of basic anatomical understanding.
There are reports that long after a person is pronounced dead and a mind and soul gone from its casing, under certain conditions, the heart might continue beating for hours. I find myself wondering if in those instances the organ might continue to feel as well. And, if it does, whether it feels more or less pain than mine at present time.”
― Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

“The coldest place in the universe is a human heart that no longer feels.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The human heart is lighted by the flame of love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Love is the only fire that warms the human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The facts of this world will never satisfy the human heart, but what we give each other can, when it holds love.”
― Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

“One of the greatest desires of the human heart is to see and be seen, to have someone acknowledge our story and see it as important and beautiful, and then comfort the pain that lies in the gaps.”
― Shonah Marie, Steady in the Storm: Walking through addiction as a newlywed

“On July 30, 1723, when he was nineteen years old, Edwards wrote in his diary, “I have concluded to endeavor to work myself into duties by searching and tracing back all the real reasons why I do them not, and narrowly searching out all the subtle subterfuges of my thoughts.” A week later he wrote, “Very much convinced of the extraordinary deceitfulness of the heart, and how exceedingly… appetite blinds the mind, and brings it into entire subjection.”
― John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching

“but the human heart has a bad habit of being hopeful.”
― David Clawson, My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen

“The human heart may very well be the haziest thing out there.”
― VKBoy, Shambala Sect

“There are lots of principled people who cannot live from their hearts (because they just don't know how to). They walk around, living their lives, full of their principles. But they don't live from their hearts. People like that are not even alive, they're not even alive. Do not ever make me apologize for my madness. I live from a heart full of madness.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The love of the LORD warms the human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Love can penetrate any human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The human heart may very well be the haziest thing out there.”
― Sean Phuller, Shambala Sect

“It is the longing of every human being to wish for love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Words are like a pebble, and the heart is like a river.
What happens when a pebble is thrown into a river? It causes a ripple.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The human heart can hold almost exactly one cup of hot tea. Did you know that? It holds roughly the same amount of milk, of course, and can accommodate sixty minnows if one has a mind to catch and pack them. (Linden Laughlin)”
― Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

“The heavenly Father knows the intentions of every human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nothing touches the human heart than love to warm it!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I wished I felt nothing.

I wished my human heart had been changed with the rest of me, made into immortal marble. Instead of the shredded bits of blackness that it now was, leaking its ichor into me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The more that is taken away, the more clearly will thou see what is left behind. It is true of Magnus sleeping there in his disguise of fiery fur, and it is true of worldly possessions, and it is true of the human heart.”
― Sara Donati, Lake in the Clouds