Human Heart Quotes - Page 6

• God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

  August Strindberg

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Heart, Cry, Sigh

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• The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

  A. B. Simpson

  Heart, Age, Needs

  A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers

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• The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

  P. D. James

  Heart, Mystery, Humans

  "P.D. James, celebrated British detective-story writer, dies", www.sfgate.com. November 28, 2014.

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• If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

  Sakyong Mipham

  Heart, Appreciate, World

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.41, Harmony

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• I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

  Daniel Tammet

  Heart, Two, Space

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• The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Flames, Light

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• But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Desire, Meaning Of Life

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• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• Every human heart is human.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Heart, Humanity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha: Illustr., from Designs by George H. Thomas”, p.4

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• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Enlightenment

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

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• ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Careers, Community

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

  Simon Callow

  Heart, Men, Injustice

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• Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.

  Trent Zelazny

  Moving, Heart, Loss

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• In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Birth

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• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Men, Giving

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius”, p.283

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• Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Heart, Endure

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Bridges, Numbers

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• We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Heart, Light, Perspective

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• The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in human consciousness, nothing will change for the better, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed will be unavoidable.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Heart, Responsibility

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• Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Heart, Phones

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• Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Heart, Science, Numbers

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• The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Civilization, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

  John Bowring

  Flower, Heart, Water

  John Bowring, “Blessings Of Instruction”

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• Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

  A.J. Cronin

  God, Heart, Trying

  A. J. Cronin (2013). “Adventures in Two Worlds”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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