Susan Wiggs Quotes

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

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

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

The human heart is my school.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

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.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

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

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

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

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

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.