T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The human heart is a dark forest.”
Source: This boy's life
“The human heart is a dark, unyielding mystery. It is a perforated jug with a mouth forever open; though all rivers of the earth pour in, it will remain empty and thirsting. The greatest of hopes had not filled it. Would it be filled now by the greatest of despairs? (Report to Greco)”
“The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.”
“The human heart is a fragile thing, easily broken yet capable of great resilience.”
Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
“The human heart is a healer, which heals both other people and ourselves. The open heart is like a fountain, which no longer makes any distinction between: I like you - I do not like you.” The open heart does not make any difference between friends and enemies. The open heart is open both for ourselves and for other people. The open heart is unconditional love.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.”
“The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.”
“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
Source: Peeps
“The human heart is a theater of longing.”
Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
“The human heart is always drawn by love.”
“The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.”
“The Human heart is an idol factory.”
“The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.”
“The human heart is bigger than the world.”
Source: America is In the Heart: A Personal History
“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.”
“The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.”
“The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.”
“The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in the outer members of our frame, there is a vital power inherent in itself that strengthens it against external violence. Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“The human heart is like the reflection on the water's surface. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels.”
“The human heart is my school.”
Source: The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6
“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”
Source: Gut Symmetries
“The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.”
“The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.”
“The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labor. The human heart is so robust, so tough, that once encouraged it beats its rhythm with a loud unswerving insistency.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“The human heart is the first home of democracy.”
Source: The Open Space of Democracy
“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?”
Source: The Open Space of Democracy
“The human heart is the most important frontier to conquer in the struggle for human dignity.”
Source: Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis
“The human heart is the only thing in this world that weighs more when it is broken”
“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?”
Source: The Moonstone
“The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.”
Source: Lord Jim
“The human heart is village sized.”
“The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.”
Source: The Lie
“The human heart. It needs to be soft enough to feel things but hard enough to survive them.”
Source: Thirsty
“The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.”
Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.”
Source: Father Goriot
“The human heart may very well be the haziest thing out there.”
“The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle.”
“The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.”
“The human Heart to be allegorized as a cavern; at the entrance there is sunshine, and flowers growing about it. You step within, but a short distance, and begin to find yourself surrounded with a terrible gloom, and monsters of divers kinds; it seems like Hell itself. You are bewildered and wander long without hope. At last a light strikes upon you. You press towards it yon, and find yourself in a region that seems, in some sort, to reproduce the flowers and sunny beauty of the entrance, but all perfect. These are the depths of the heart, or of human nature, bright and peaceful; the gloom and terror may lie deep; but deeper still is this eternal beauty.”
Source: The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
“The human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don’t live there now.
This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have pictures of perfection etched into the very DNA of our souls.
We chase it. We angle our cameras trying to catch it. We take twenty shots hoping to find it. And then even our good photos have to be color corrected, filtered, and cropped.
We do our very best to make others think this posted picture is the real deal. But we all know the truth. We all see the charade. We all know the emperor is naked. But there we are, clapping on the sidelines, following along, playing the game. Trying to believe that maybe, just maybe, if we get close to something that looks like perfection it will help us snag a little of its shine for ourselves.
But we know even the shiniest of things is headed in the direction of becoming dull. New will always eventually become old. Followers unfollow. People who lift us up will let us down. The most tightly knit aspects of life snag, unravel, and disintegrate before our very eyes.
And we are epically disappointed.
But we aren’t talking about it.”
Source: It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
“The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
“The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.”
Source: Just Breathe
“The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.”
Source: Shock
“The human heart weights (on average) eleven ounces and beats (approximately) one hundred thousand times per day.
In Ancient Greece, the theory was widely held that, as the most powerful and vital part of the body, the heart acted as a brain of sorts- collecting information from all other organs through the circulatory system. Aristotle included thoughts and emotions in his hypotheses relating to the aforementioned information- a fact that modern scientists find quaint in its lack of basic anatomical understanding.
There are reports that long after a person is pronounced dead and a mind and soul gone from its casing, under certain conditions, the heart might continue beating for hours. I find myself wondering if in those instances the organ might continue to feel as well. And, if it does, whether it feels more or less pain than mine at present time.”
Source: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
“The human heart will never wrinkle”