"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

"and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
— Jodi Picoult

""One love, one heart, one destiny"
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— Bob Marley

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him."
— Augustine of Hippo

"I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: King James Version)

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

"A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is darkness in every heart."
— Kingdom Hearts

"Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. "
— George MacDonald (The Day Boy and the Night Girl)

"The heart is the only broken instrument that works."
— T. E. Kalem

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."
— Sara Teasdale

"Where thy treasure is, there will your heart be. "
— Matthew 6:21

"The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song."
— Psalm 28:7

"She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother."
— Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son)

"...the human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)..."
— C.S. Lewis

"Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

"Your feet will bring you to where your heart is."
— - Old Scots Saying

"Why break the heart that never beat from love?"
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)

"Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can’t just fix one with no concern for the other. "
— Charles Martin

"When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

"And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. "
— Anne Sexton

"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

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."
— Alphonse de Lamartine

"The human heart is my school."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Armand)

"25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.Psalm 73"
— Various (The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version Translated Out of the Original Tongues)

"The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of somebody’s backyard. Never in all my scientific reading did I encounter anything that talked about a broken heart. Never did I read anything about what the heart felt, how it felt or why it felt. Feeling and knowing weren’t important, only understanding"
— Charles Martin

"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart."
— Luigi Pirandello

"“You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn’t the kind you were thinking of.” He laughed to himself. “Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.” "
— Charles Martin

"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."
— Charles Dickens (Hard Times)

"Excess makes the heart grow fonder..."
— John Balance

"Don't hold a dagger in your heart."
— Chinese proverb

""But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me. Already your horn has been raised, and your wrath has been kindled, and your star has passed by, and your heart has become strong." [--Jesus to Judas]"
— Rodolphe Kasser (The Gospel of Judas, Critical Edition: Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos)

"And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone."
— Anne Sexton