Honore de Balzac Quotes

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Injuries come only from the heart.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.