When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
Who has not loved twice? More than twice? Who has never broken a heart?
Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
Change your heart /
It will astound you /
Beck, Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue.
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn’t understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
Steve Martin, Shopgirl
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
The saddest part of a broken heart /
Isn’t the ending so much as the start /
The tragedy starts from the very first spark /
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart /
Feist, Let it die
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone’s hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don’t really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn’t have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I think that sometimes we love people so much that we become numb to it… because if we actually felt how much we really loved them, it would kill us. That doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means your heart is too big.
Brittany Murphy, Riding in Cars with Boys
Remember kid, there’s heroes and there’s legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart kid, and you’ll never go wrong.
Art LaFleur, The Sandlot