If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed — all there is cold, cold as ice.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Oh! if there be a harlot here, or a man who has fallen into all sorts of gross sin, Christ can and will deliver you if you will only come and repose your heart’s trust in him.”
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“One of the greatest works of grace in the heart is to humble our pride.”
— Charles Spurgeon
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Those whose hearts are filled with praise will say, ‘What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits?’
—Jonathan Edwards
“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
—Charles Dickens
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
—Sigmund Freud
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
—Pablo Picasso
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
—Charles Dickens
“[…]Christ is still alive, and still with his people, still conversing with his chosen ones, still by his Divine Spirit speaking out of his very heart into the hearts of his true disciples.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
Sanctification notes an holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the temples of the living, God, separate from all profane sinful practices, to the Lord’s only use and service.
—John Flavel
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
—Charles Dickens
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
—Carl Jung
Then only is God praised when the heart is lifted up to God with love, joy, and wonder for what it sees in him and receives from him with a desire of expressing it to him.
—Jonathan Edwards
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Hearts are made to be broken.
—Oscar Wilde
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet’s tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
—Søren Kierkegaard
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
—Søren Kierkegaard