105 Heartfelt Quotes

In a world that often moves too fast, pausing to reflect on beautiful, heartfelt words can bring a sense of calm and inspiration. Whether you're seeking comfort, motivation, or a reminder of what truly matters, heartfelt quotes have a unique way of touching our souls. We've curated a special collection of 105 touching quotes that capture the essence of love, life, and human connection. Allow these words to resonate within you, offering solace and sparking joy as you navigate your own journey. Dive in and discover the profound impact a few well-chosen words can have on your heart and mind.

1. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” - Blaise Pascal

2. “And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?” - Boris Pasternak

3. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.” - Sara Teasdale

4. “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” - ben franklin

5. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” - Alphonse de Lamartine

6. “We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.” - James R. Ball

7. “My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.” - Noah BenShea

8. “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.” - Madeleine L'Engle

9. “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.” - Markus Zusak

10. “A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.” - Michael Ondaatje

11. “Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.” - Alysha Speer

12. “On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.” - Banana Yoshimoto

13. “I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.” - Emilie Autumn

14. “SECOND SUNSo much bloodHas been spent in this world,But we have not yet built a sun of blood.Listen, my friend,To these trembling words:A second sun will be born of our blood in the form of a heart.” - Visar Zhiti

15. “Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.” - Ibi Kaslik

16. “J'écoutais mon cœur. Je ne pouvais imaginer que ce bruit qui m'accompagnait depuis si longtemps pût jamais cesser.” - Albert Camus

17. “Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.” - Lisa Kleypas

18. “My heart is schizophrenic.” - Lesley Anne Cowan

19. “Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.” - Neil Gaiman

20. “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

21. “Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.” - Philip Reeve

22. “The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.” - Amit Abraham

23. “Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there through open heart.” - Santosh Kalwar

24. “When you hate somebody...you give him chance mastering your heart.” - Toba Beta

25. “By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

26. “You can trust bad liars.” - Toba Beta

27. “Men don't hate anything if there's no hatred in their hearts.” - Toba Beta

28. “Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

29. “He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.” - James Joyce

30. “Que l'on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l'autre versant de la planète, la différence n'est pas essentielle. La présence de l'ami qui en apparence s'est éloigné, peut se faire plus dense qu'une présence réelle.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

31. “Stand and yield," she called out, her voice far steadier than her hands. "For I cannot allow you to pass." Bannor's crooked grin was somehow more intimidating than a snarl. 'Twould have been far easier to despise him if he'd been cursed with horns and a tail instead of twinkling blue eyes and a dimple in his jaw. "What would you have me yield, my lady? My sword or my heart?"-willow&bannor-” - Teresa Medeiros

32. “Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.” - Toba Beta

33. “No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It's just a lump of muscle pumping mechanically inside your ribs. It has no will and no ability to do anything but go on pumping until it gives up and withers away or is choked by some disease. Your spinal cord, on the other hand, feels. The central nervous system pours out from the spinal cord, and with it one feels pain. Pain is the most trustworthy sensation a human being can know because it teaches us what hurts. With the spinal cord, one can hear what will hurt, smell the sting of suffering, taste it, feel it, and see the world with new eyes. I learned a long time ago not to follow my heart, the hunk of meat flexing in the chest. I trust the tube locked up in a column of bone, the tube that shows me what pain is.” - Joshua S. Porter

34. “You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.” - Charles Yu

35. “I believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending…they are called heartstrings” - Jeremy Aldana

36. “Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart” - Stephen R. Lawhead

37. “Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.” - Fulton J. Sheen

38. “When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.” - Jamie Weise

39. “love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!” - Ruskin Bond

40. “The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.” - Criss Jami

41. “Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.” - Dianna Hardy

42. “It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.” - Banana Yoshimoto

43. “Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.” - Edward Abbey

44. “If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder."I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.” - Chris Adrian

45. “Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?” - Bisco Hatori

46. “Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.” - Vanna Bonta

47. “The Everlasting Staircase"Jeffrey McDanielWhen the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live,my first thought was: can't she postpone her exitfrom this planet for a week? I've got places to do,people to be. Then grief hit between the ribs,said disappear or reappear more fully. so I boardeda red eyeball and shot across America,hoping the nurses had enough quarters to keepthe jukebox of Grandma's heart playing. She grew uppoor in Appalachia. And while world war IIfunctioned like Prozac for the Great Depression,she believed poverty was a double feature,that the comfort of her adult years was merelyan intermission, that hunger would hobble back,hurl its prosthetic leg through her window,so she clipped, clipped, clipped -- became the JacquesCousteau of the bargain bin, her wetsuitstuffed with coupons. And now --pupils fixed, chindangling like the boots of a hanged man --I press my ear to her lampshade-thin chestand listen to that little soldier march toward whateverplateau, or simply exhaust his arsenal of beats.I hate when people ask if she even knew I was there.The point is I knew, holding the one-sidedconversation of her hand. Once I believed the heartwas like a bar of soap -- the more you use it,the smaller it gets; care too much and it'll snap offin your grasp. But when Grandma's last breathwaltzed from that room, my heart openedwide like a parachute, and I realized she didn't die.She simply found a silence she could call her own.” - Jeffrey McDaniel

48. “Elizabeth,With my compliments.You will never get your claws into another one of mine.Rot in hell,LNïx clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, “He gave you his heart. That’s so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.” - Kresley Cole

49. “There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.” - Keith Bellows

50. “Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.” - Vinayak

51. “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” - William Goldman

52. “I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.” - Ki Longfellow

53. “I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.” - Pope John XXIII

54. “... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” - E.A. Bucchianeri

55. “But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers.” - Farrah Naseem

56. “She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca.” - Lee Monroe

57. “The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say."Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway” - Richard Wagamese

58. “I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.” - Harley King

59. “Harden your heart.” - James Patterson

60. “My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire.” - Habeeb Akande

61. “The word "impossible" is only in the mindAnd not in the heart.If we can remain in the heart,There will be no end to our progress.” - Sri Chinmoy

62. “When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.” - Sri Chinmoy

63. “I shall now call myself;I shall now call.In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,I shall love myself and love myself.I shall be my own quest,My absolute wealth.The journey of light supreme will commenceIn the heart of freedom.” - Sri Chinmoy

64. “The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.” - Steven Redhead

65. “It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history.” - Nanci Kincaid

66. “Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.” - Johann Von Schiller

67. “Even if you be Mendacious.. I know deep in your heart.. you don't wish to be one.. its just, you r acting so 'cos u not letting your heart flow.. and you think your Mendacious actions will make situations convenient to me..!!” - Abhijeet Sawant

68. “Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” - Leo Tolstoy

69. “I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine.” - Christine Zolendz

70. “It's not the beauty in the face that makes people beautiful, wonderful, amazing , graceful or great, it's the beauty in a persons heart that makes everything beautiful and worth it. ♥” - Elena Toledo

71. “The heart never lies” - Christine Love Never Dies

72. “I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.” - Glenda Millard

73. “Yra didelė, bet visiškai kasdieniška paslaptis. Visi žmonės su ja susiję, kiekvienas ją žino, bet tik nedaugelis apie ją pagalvoja. Dauguma paprasčiausiai su ja taikstosi ir nė kiek nesistebi. Toji paslaptis - tai laikas. Jam matuoti yra kalendoriai ir laikrodžiai, bet tas nedaug ką sako, nes kiekvienas žino, kad kartais viena valanda atrodo kaip amžinybė, o kitais kartais ji prabėga kaip akimirka - nelygu, ką žmogus tą valandą patiria. Laikas yra gyvenimas, o gyvenimo būstas - žmogaus širdis.” - Michael Ende

74. “Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.” - Justin Holcomb

75. “I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.” - Misty Edwards

76. “Deal with him, Hemingway!” - James Joyce

77. “Love is a fairytale blah, blah, blah.” - Jessica Fortunato

78. “Worship is not about the posture of your body; worship is about the posture of your heart.” - Rodney Burton

79. “The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?” - Paul Hoffman

80. “Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

81. “Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.” - Nadège Richards

82. “Di manapun kamu berada. Di situlah hatiku ada. Rumahku itu, kamu.” - Hilda Nurina Sabikah

83. “...some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...” - John Geddes

84. “...you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...” - John Geddes

85. “Clouds pass and disperse.Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?Is it for such I agitate my heart?” - Sylvia Plath

86. “His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.” - Teri Terry

87. “You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper” - Teresa Nielsen Haydense

88. “Language is not the barrier, the heart is".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

89. “The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.” - Charlene Costanzo

90. “May your heart open.May joy emerge.May love flow through you.May you heal and help others.” - Charlene Costanzo

91. “What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now. He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.” - Susan Hubbard

92. “Kindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech.- Kindness” - William Kean Seymour

93. “Everything worth having can be carried in your heart.” - Betina Krahn

94. “It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” - Lawrence Durrell

95. “kamu yang menjauh cuma mendekatkan aku pada kesepian.aku, selalu disini.di persimpangan jalan ini dan ketika kamu dengannya menemui akhir, kembalilah.aku masih melambaikan tangan dingin inikepada kamu, yang telah lama pergi.” - Oka @landakgaul

96. “And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas--he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.” - Jackson Pearce

97. “I don’t have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares” - Amit Abraham

98. “Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?” - Kristen Ashley

99. “My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.” - Charles Baudelaire

100. “I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You've no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts.” - Kiersten White

101. “The gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that - a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don't believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the gospel teach you - that is to train, discipline, coach you - over a period of time. You must let the gospel argue with you. You must let the gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.” - Timothy Keller

102. “I fix what's broken - except in the heart.” - Bernard Malamud

103. “But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice,it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau

104. “There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things.” - Adam Bagdasarian

105. “How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.” - Rene Char