106 Heartfelt Quotes

Whether you’re searching for a way to express your deepest emotions or seeking inspiration to share with someone special, heartfelt quotes have a unique power to touch the soul. In this curated collection, we’ve gathered the top 106 quotes that beautifully capture the essence of love, compassion, and understanding. Each quote is a timeless gem, offering profound insights and uplifting sentiments that resonate on a deeply personal level. Explore these words of wisdom and let them inspire you to connect more meaningfully with yourself and others.

1. “Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. “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

3. “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” - Milan Kundera

4. “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 NIV)” - Anonymous

5. “Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.” - Dodie Smith

6. “The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

7. “You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.” - Mark Twain

8. “Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship” - Robert Green Ingersoll

9. “Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?” - Robin Hobb

10. “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” - Gustave Flaubert

11. “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

12. “I feel the healinghands of Godtouch my heartand kiss my soul.” - Harley King

13. “A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.” - Santosh Kalwar

14. “They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.” - Gabrielle Zevin

15. “Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” - Albert Einstein

16. “I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.” - Ninni Holmqvist

17. “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

18. “Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.” - Cornelia Funke

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

20. “Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly this one time, what would you tell me?Well maybe you could give me a suggestionSo I could know you, what would you tell me?Maybe you could tell me what to ask youBecause then I'd know you, what would you tell mePlease tell me that there's timeTo make this work for all intents and purposesAnd what are your intentions, will you try?Impressions, you've made impressionsThey're going nowhereThey're just going to wait here if you let themPlease don't let themI want to know youAnd if they're going to haunt mePlease collect themPlease just collect themAnd now I'm beggingI'm begging you to ask me just one questionOne simple questionBecause then you'd know meI'll tell you that there's timeTo make this work for all intents and purposesAt least for my ownWhat is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stoneWhy must we always be untrue?” - Jack Johnson

21. “The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.” - Anita Shreve

22. “No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.” - Kim Edwards

23. “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

24. “Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.” - Rafael Sabatini

25. “The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart” - Jacqueline Carey

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

27. “Without realizing what she was doing and more on an impulse than anything else, she leaned forward and kissed him. It was a simple, yet firm kiss and she pulled back after only a moment. But it sent a thrill through her. He leaned down for another. But she put her finger on his lips to stop him. "That was my reward to you," she said as they danced. "Don't squander it." "Reward? he asked still seeming both surprised and delighted at this unexpected attention. "What for?" "Why for living, Vaelros. And for doing so much else to help me. I will have you rewarded in state as well. But that was just from me." She saw Vaelros flush and she gave him a brilliant smile. "You don't like my reward?" she asked. "I do!" he replied. "I want only to learn how to earn more." The music was fading. The song was ending. Luthiel stepped back and let her hands drop. "A mysterious thing, my heart," she said. ” - Robert Fanney

28. “My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.” - Simone Elkeles

29. “The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.” - Charlie Sheen

30. “Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.” - Amy Gerstler

31. “The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.” - Toba Beta

32. “If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.” - Christine Feehan

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

34. “You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independance, reject them. The gods are within, I say, whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart.” - R.A. Salvatore

35. “The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.” - Tess Gerritsen

36. “Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.” - Tennessee Williams

37. “E quando poi davanti a te si apriranno tante strade e non saprai quale prendere, non imboccarne una a caso, ma siediti e aspetta. Respira con la profondità fiduciosa con cui hai respirato il giorno in cui sei venuta al mondo, senza farti distrarre da nulla, aspetta e aspetta ancora. Stai ferma, in silenzio, e ascolta il tuo cuore. Quando poi ti parla, alzati e và dove lui ti porta. ” - Susanna Tamaro

38. “walaupun tidak ada hal lain di dunia ini yang bisa kau percayai, percayalah bahwa aku mecintaimu. sepenuh hatiku.” - Ilana Tan

39. “I wish I had no heart, it aches so…” - Louisa May Alcott

40. “The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.” - John Calvin

41. “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.” - Emily Brontë

42. “For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

43. “They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.” - Christine Feehan

44. “There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I’m getting the signals wrong then I’m about to destroy the best run we’ve had all evening. It’s been at least ten minutes since I’ve done or said anything stupid.” - Leanne Hall

45. “From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.” - Heather O'Neill

46. “In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.” - Mark Rowlands

47. “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

48. “I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.” - Santosh Kalwar

49. “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” - Marvin J. Ashton

50. “Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.” - Amy Efaw

51. “Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.” - Nancy Werlin

52. “The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.” - Vanna Bonta

53. “Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am” - Shakespeare; William

54. “She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself.” - V.S. Carnes

55. “Sirds krūtīs – kalta metāla irbe, kura pret vakaru sadrūp pelnos. Ļaujies laika plūdumam un pamijus rokām, kuras tevi glāstīs un nodos. Kuras tevi darvos un dedzinās.” - Inga Ābele

56. “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

57. “I hate you. I wish you was dead."Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start. She had nothing to say. She sat down in her husband's chair; and as she thought of her desire to love the friendless, crippled boy and her eager wish that he should love her--she was a barren woman and, even though it was clearly God's will that she should be childless, she could scarcely bear to look at little children sometimes, her heart ached so--the tears rose to her eyes and one by one, slowly, rolled down her cheeks. Philip watched her in amazement. She took out her handkerchief, and now she cried without restraint. Suddenly Philip realised that she was crying because of what he had said, and he was sorry. He went up to her silently and kissed her. It was the first kiss he had ever given herwithout being asked. And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.” - W. Somerset Maugham

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

59. “Her heart was leading her where it belonged. To him.” - Farrah Naseem

60. “She looked from the hilt protruding between her breasts into the eyes of the boy she loved. The golden light in them enfolded her and her heart stopped beating, leaving the ghost of her smile on her mouth. Her vacant eyes mirrored something infinitely close to peace.” - Farrah Naseem

61. “Kāda man dīvaina gaume- mīlu es tikai trīs. Tevi, kas bija un nāca, tevi, kas blakus nu stāv, tevi ,ko sirds un prāts meklē un kuras nav.” - Imants Ziedonis

62. “The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.” - John Eldredge Brent Curtis

63. “Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.” - L.M. Fields

64. “Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it’s telling you” - Marie Coulson

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

66. “(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I'd ever had. I'm not sure what I expected; perhaps my life or my sins or a great white light would flash before my eyes; perhaps I'd feel a shock like being hit by a bolt of lightning. Instead, I felt no tremendous sensation, just a weightlessness and an enveloping calm that let me know that Christ had come into my heart.” - Louis Zamperini

67. “True gratitude can never comeFrom the mind.It has to flow from the heartTo the mind, vital and bodyUntil everything that we have and areIs a sea of gratitude.” - Sri Chinmoy

68. “We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.” - Lights Poxlietner

69. “...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...” - John Geddes

70. “When the heart is dry the eye is dry.” - Victor Hugo

71. “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

72. “I read that I profess, the Art of Love.Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!” - William Shakespeare

73. “It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.” - J.D. Greear

74. “For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.” - Gustave Flaubert

75. “Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.” - Glenda Millard

76. “When we allow the walls around our hearts to become rigid, and stay that way, we assign ourselves a slow death. Like the very air and water that flows through our physical body to sustain it, love must flow through our heart to keep it supple, and to keep us truly alive.” - Jeffrey R. Anderson

77. “See with your mind, Speak with your heart,Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.” - BJ Neblett

78. “My true-love hath my heart and I have his,By just exchange one for the other given:I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss;There never was a bargain better driven.His heart in me keeps me and him in one;My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:He loves my heart, for once it was his own;I cherish his because in me it bides.His heart his wound received from my sight;My heart was wounded with his wounded heart;For as from me on him his hurt did light,So still, methought, in me his hurt did smart:Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss,My true-love hath my heart and I have his.” - Philip Sidney

79. “I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.” - Michael Ondaatje

80. “The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [...] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there.” - Paul P. Pearsall

81. “Don't neglect your heart, it needs attention too.” - R. Alan Woods

82. “For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.” - Kim Harrison

83. “Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.” - Alejandro Jodorowsky

84. “What if he can't save me? What if trying destroys us both?” - Jessica Fortunato

85. “The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

86. “It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisdom is all head and no heart.Behold, brother, you are being crushed under the weight of your head. You are dying of old age while you are yet a child.” - James Stephens

87. “An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.” - Ingrid

88. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” - Rumi

89. “Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...” - Kelly Bingham

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

91. “I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over.” - R.K. Lilley

92. “No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.” - Brian Herbert

93. “...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...” - John Geddes

94. “Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills.” - Richard Monckton Milnes

95. “It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility. The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours. All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles. It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

96. “The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

97. “The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.” - A.W. Tozer

98. “Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.” - Eric Whitacre

99. “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

100. “Het wezenlijke is voor het oog onzichtbaar, alleen met je hart kan je goed zien.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

101. “Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.” - Anthony Liccione

102. “The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says. Most can't hear it at all and they have to guess. There are a lot of people walking around just guessing.” - Suzanne Palmieri

103. “I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.” - Julia Roberts

104. “A woman should be mindful that the key to one man's heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.” - Dennis E. Adonis

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

106. “To have a caring and committed heart toward someone—a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person's state of health, appearance, reputation, finances, troubles, or challenges—that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find.” - Richelle E. Goodrich