{"id":4586,"date":"2016-06-11T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2017-04-20T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:43:15","slug":"7-quotes-about-the-heart-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/7-quotes-about-the-heart-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Quotes About the Heart from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HeartQuotes4.jpg\" alt=\"Quotes about the Heart from Literature\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HeartQuotes4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HeartQuotes4-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HeartQuotes4-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>These are some of the sweetest quotes about hearts from literature.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Diana%20of%20the%20Crossways\">Diana of the Crossways<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=George%20Meredith\">George Meredith<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Life&#8217;s more than breath and the quick round of blood;<br \/>\nIt is a great spirit and a busy heart.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Festus\">Festus<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Philip%20James%20Bailey\">Philip James Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Oliver%20Twist\">Oliver Twist<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charles%20Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Maybe, he thought, there aren&#8217;t any such things as good or bad friends &#8211; maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you&#8217;re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they&#8217;re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that&#8217;s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=It\">It<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Stephen%20King\">Stephen King<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>She had found her heart at last. Never having known its worth till now, she had never known the worth of his.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Barnaby%20Rudge\">Barnaby Rudge<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charles%20Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I carry my own church about under my own hat,&#8221; said I. &#8220;Bricks and mortar won&#8217;t make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Stark%20Munro%20Letters\">The Stark Munro Letters<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Sir%20Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle\">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Great%20Expectations\">Great Expectations<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charles%20Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Hearts&amp;page=1\">See More Quotes about the Heart<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of the sweetest quotes about hearts from literature. &#8211; &#8220;Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.&#8221; ~ Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[209,825,443,417,331,96,678,843,371,416,826,536,495,936],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-barnaby-rudge","tag-charles-dickens","tag-diana-of-the-crossways","tag-festus","tag-george-meredith","tag-great-expectations","tag-hearts-quotes","tag-it","tag-oliver-twist","tag-philip-james-bailey","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-stark-munro-letters","tag-topic1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}