Northrop Frye Quotes

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart

The human heart is the same the world over.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes ...

The human heart is my school.

She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the political spectrum. I'm left-leaning, and I discovered as I was doing it that I had an impulse to make the left-hand side appear better than the right-hand side. That was manifesting in the way I was choosing certain words, framing certain ideas. I shared it with a few people, and they all said, "Oh my God, this is really biased." I hadn't seen it at all.

I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.