Heart Beating Quotes

• I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Heart, Somewhere Else, Feelings

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• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

  Raymond Carver

  Love, Moving, Heart

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.169, Vintage

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• I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

  Aya Kito

  Heart, Hands, Alive

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• There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heart, Mean, Reality

  "A God of Surprises". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. March 20, 2014.

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• The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

  Susan Griffin

  Heart, Mind, Doe

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.137, Open Road Media

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• He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Kissing, Moments

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• Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?” “That you seem to be dating my dad?” Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.” “What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dad, Valentine, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Cat, Hands

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

  Patti Smith

  Brother, Future, Heart

  Song: Upright Come, Album: Gung Ho, 2000

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• There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.

  Juliette Binoche

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

  "Juliette Binoche: 'Depardieu wanted to kill me. But I am still here'" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2015.

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• My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

  David Guetta

  Heart, Sleep, Play

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

  Jessye Norman

  Love, Children, Heart

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• I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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• If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence, to simply stop; even to listen to your heart beating, it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment which is complete in itself. It is not on the way to another moment. It is not a bridge to another opportunity. It is the timeless perfection So stopand sink into this timeless moment.

  Mooji

  Heart, Opportunity, Bridges

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• Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Heart, Way

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.90, Pearson Education

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• Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.

  Russ Roberts

  Struggle, Heart, People

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• The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, World, Demand

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• Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

  Jenny Holzer

  Heart, Hands, Breasts

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Past, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.109, Xist Publishing

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• The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Cells, Talking

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• I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

  Steve Tibbetts

  Heart, Thinking, Nervous

  "The Exotic Sound Of Steve Tibbetts". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. July 9, 2010.

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• When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes.

  Kevin Griffin

  Children, Crazy, Heart

  "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, People, May

  "Blair Steps Down, Takes Up Mideast Peace". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 27, 2007.

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