Many people have dedicated their words to catching the essence of the human heart and decoding it.
While the uniqueness of the human heart is a great reason to intrigue us, there's way more than what meets the eye at once. The human heart not only helps us live well but also makes room for emotions of utmost complexity.
One of the many reasons why people have talked about the human heart at such length is that it can be explored in context to a variety of subjects. Whether it be spirituality, physiology, or psychology, there's so much that we can connect with the human heart.
Read ahead to know and learn about some of the greatest human heart quotes of all time.
Heart-Warming Human Heart Quotes
We start off with some touching statements, ones that can help shape our personalities.
“What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.” — Henri Nouwen.
“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.” — Martin Luther.
“Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.” ― Mahalia Jackson.
“Love can penetrate any human heart.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita.
“No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.” — Jack Kornfield.
“The love of the LORD warms the human heart.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita.
“Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.” — Bulleh Shah.
“What a foolish thing, the human heart, being both fragile and reckless. No wonder we spend such an inordinate amount of time in pain.” ― 'Crushed', Eliza Crewe.
“but the human heart has a bad habit of being hopeful.” ― 'My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen', David Clawson.
“Words are like a pebble, and the heart is like a river.// What happens when a pebble is thrown into a river? It causes a ripple.” ― 'Song of a Nature Lover', Michael Bassey Johnson.
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald.
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” — Maya Angelou.
Fascinating Human Heart Quotes
The following quotes will encourage us all to think and reflect on our hearts.
“There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.” — Sathya Sai Baba.
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.” — George Herbert.
"Human hearts are such pathetic, frail little things… like Ego wrapped in needy insecurity stuffed inside a glass box, so easily shattered.” ― 'Dirty Little Freaks', Jaden Wilkes.
“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” — Charlotte Bronte.
“The facts of this world will never satisfy the human heart, but what we give each other can, when it holds love.” ― 'Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage', Anne Lamott.
“The human heart may very well be the haziest thing out there.” ― 'Shambala Sect', VKBoy.
“The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.” — John O'Donohue.
“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.” ― 'Letters Home', Sylvia Plath.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
“One of the greatest desires of the human heart is to see and be seen, to have someone acknowledge our story and see it as important and beautiful, and then comfort the pain that lies in the gaps.” ― 'Steady in the Storm: Walking through addiction as a newlywed', Shonah Marie.
“There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places....It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us.
To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it.It is the magic of the human heart.” ― 'Stepsister', Jennifer Donnelly.
“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.” ― 'House Rules', Jodi Picoult.
Interesting Human Heart Quotes
(The human heart is undoubtedly one of the most complex organs present across all earthly creatures!)
Have a look at some interesting heart quotes written over the years.
“Only hardship softens the hardness of the human heart.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita.
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” — Albert Einstein.
“The human heart can hold almost exactly one cup of hot tea. Did you know that? It holds roughly the same amount of milk, of course, and can accommodate sixty minnows if one has a mind to catch and pack them. (Linden Laughlin)” ― Josh Ritter.
“Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes they throw off like sparks... But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.” ― 'The Wedding', Dorothy West.
“The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.” — Bill Bowerman.
“The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.” — Billy Graham.
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.” — Ram Dass.
“The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of its own soul’s counterpart.” ― 'Write like no one is reading 2", Crystal Woods.
“It is a fact that the human heart differs from all other species. While its function to the body is the same of all animals, its participation with human soul is both rhapsodic and fatal.-Rose” ― 'The Rose Legacy', Kristen Heitzmann.
“The human heart is surely a deep, closed, blood-filled pit. When it opens, all the thirsting, inconsolable shades we have loved run to drink and be revived; they grow continually denser around us, blackening the air.
Why do they run to drink the blood of our hearts? Because they realize that no other resurrection exists. (Report to Greco)” ― N. Kazantzakis.
“The heavenly Father knows the intentions of every human heart.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita.
More Human Heart Quotes
Here are some more heart quotes, which contain a bit of everything.
“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” — Rumi.
“He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.” ― 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter', Kim Edwards.
“The human heart is lighted by the flame of love.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita.
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” — Lord Byron.
“You have to go wholeheartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” — Frank Lloyd Wright.
