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Human Heart Quotes (page 6)

Fernando Pessoa quote: "The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. Fernando Pessoa
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in..."
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. Jean-Paul Sartre
Robert James Waller quote: "The human heart has a way of making itself large again even..."
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. Robert James Waller
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. Jodi Picoult
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig."
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Isaac Babel quote: "No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full..."
No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time. Isaac Babel
Jodi Picoult quote: "She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process..."
She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process worked with a human heart. Jodi Picoult
Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen. Bill Moyers
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but through every human heart Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Zelmo was nearly bellowing by the time he raised his glass to the tables center. 'To the human heart!' Diners at other tables glanced to see what was the matter. Jonathan Lethem
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. Fernando Pessoa
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then..."
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. Lawrence Durrell
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him. Cormac McCarthy
I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love; I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.) Stephen King
This, according to the fellows who saw me as fit for a Service career, put me ahead of the curve, to understand this truth at an age when most guys are starting only to suspect the basics of adulthood--that life owes you nothing; that suffering takes many forms; that no one will ever care for you as your mother did; that the human heart is a chump. David Foster Wallace

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