Valentine Hearts

The human heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions.

David Hume

Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

W.B. Yeats

Did not our hearts burn within us, when he talked with us?

Gospel of John

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

The soul is the consciousness of life.

It is the light of the heart.

Upanishads

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him,

And then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Saying

It's like a lion at the door,
And when the door begins to crack,
It's like a stick across your back;
And when your back begins to smart,
It's like a penknife in your heart;
And when your heart begins to bleed,
You're dead and dead and dead indeed.

Nursery Rhyme

Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.

Psalm 34

A honey tongue
A heart of gall

Walter Ralegh (from a French proverb)

Now cracks a noble heart.

Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will find in every one, at least one black spot that he has to keep concealed.

Henrik Ibsen

My strength is as the strength of ten
Because my heart is pure.

Tennyson (Sir Galahad)

My heart is a lonely hunter
That hunts on a lonely hill.

Fiona McCloud (aka William Sharp)

Light breaks where no sun shines

Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart

Push in their tides.

Dylan Thomas

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

There are strings in the human heart that had best not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

I want to live
I want to give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Neil Young

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This set my heart to fluttering in my breast,
For when I look upon you a moment
Then I can speak no more...

Sappho

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

Homer (Odyssey)

The heart of the wise, like a mirror, should reflect all objects, without being sullied by any.

Confucius

O Name, stream down in moonlight on the lotus-heart,
Opening its cup to the knowledge of thySelf.

Sri Chaitanya

Your cheatin' heart will make you weep

You'll cry and cry and try to sleep

But sleep won't come the whole night through

Your cheatin' heart will tell on you.

Hank Williams

The rose speaks silently,
in a language known only to the heart.

Unknown

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy.

Her heart.

John Mattson (from the movie Milk Money)

Faint heart n'er won fair lady.

Cervantes (Don Quixote)

(from a common proverb)

The opening was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway heading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)