The Human Heart Quotes
Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
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.
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.
Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."