#heart

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#casket #death #funeral #heart #loss

A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#hearts #beauty

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ↗

— Anne Frank

#build #confusion #consisting #death #everything

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#heartbreak #memory #nepenthe #death

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#passion #the-heart #death

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#american people #come #depression #enshrined #going

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#brains #capable #comes #farthest #hearts

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#contracts #criticism #flattery #goes #head

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#charming #compliments #criticism #forgets #giving

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#heart #insatiable #joy #more #sated