Truman Capote Quotes

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

There is nothing you can control about love.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.

It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.

You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?

You can't control who you fall in love with.

No one masters the heart.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.

Our heart always transcends us.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.