Heart Of Stone Quotes

• This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

  Joseph Stalin

  Heart, Feelings, Humanity

  "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.

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• Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

  Sid Waddell

  Heart, Stones, Beats

  "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.

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• Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

  Dan Wells

  Heart, Teeth, Stones

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• The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

  Thomas Campbell

  Heart, Sorrow, Proud

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.52

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• God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Heart, Giving, Flesh

  "Fictional character: Thomas Cromwell". "Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2012.

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• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

  William Butler Yeats

  Broken Heart, Sacrifice, Long

  "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

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• Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Flesh, Stones

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.51, NavPress

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• God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Reality, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• one pale woman all alone,
  The daylight kissing her wan hair,
  Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
  With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

  Charles Darwin

  Heart, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer (1987). “Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Heart, Laughing

  Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

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• She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Stones, Might

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

  Sophocles

  Anger, Heart, Stones

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• The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.

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• The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
  Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
  And only You can see the good in broken things
  You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
  And set this prisoner free

  Bethany Dillon

  Home, Heart, Play

  Song: Hallelujah, Album: Imagination, 2005

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• And thus we rust Life's iron chain
  Degraded and alone:
  And some men curse, and some men weep,
  And some men make no moan:
  But God's eternal Laws are kind
  And break the heart of stone

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!
  Ye shall grow a part
  Of the laughing Sea;
  Of the moaning heart
  Of the glittered wave
  Of the sun-gleam's dart
  In the ocean-grave.
  Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
  For that I love
  Thy heart of stone!
  From the heights above
  To the depths below,
  Where dread things move,
  
  There is naught can show
  A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown!
  Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Life, Ocean, Moving

  "The Dirge of the Sea". Poem by Voltairine de Cleyre, April 1891.

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• Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Real, Lying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Theres a wideness in Gods mercy
  I cannot find in my own
  And He keeps His fire burning
  To melt this heart of stone
  Keeps me aching with a yearning
  Keeps me glad to have been caught
  In the reckless raging fury
  That they call the love of God

  Rich Mullins

  Heart, Fire, Burning

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• He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

  Alice Sebold

  Strong, Hurt, Grandma

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Father, Fall

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