Top 100 Heart Close Quotes
#1. The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.
Henry Suso
#2. Keep your heart close, dear Nathaniel, for nothing will bring you comfort should you leave it with another
Freedom Matthews
#3. out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then in the dread of his heart he cried: 'Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will
Jacob Grimm
#4. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)
Eva Charles
#5. If I close my eyes, I can see it tainting my blood, forcing my heart to pump faster and faster, until I feel dizzy from the beautiful poison in the air.
C.M. Stunich
#6. The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
Ellen Hopkins
#8. I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.
Patrick Modiano
#9. If one man in a hundred is a traitor, and I allow that knowledge to close my heart to the other ninety -nine, who is the winner then?
A.F.E. Smith
#10. Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.
Anja Niedringhaus
#11. I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close
on my own peace, I wanted to close
the peace of my love in my heart
like dew in a dark rose."
From "Philip Speaks
Caryll Houselander
#12. Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.
James Nesbitt
#13. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#14. I felt like a glutton for pain, like I wanted to clutch the misery close to my heart and let it sit there.
Robert J. Crane
#15. Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#16. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens
#17. They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.
Carlos Salinas
#18. Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.
Sara Bareilles
#19. Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
Teresa Of Avila
#20. What is it like to a be published author? Image clawing your beating heart from your chest and flopping it onto a plate for a room of food critiques expecting an ambrosia that conjures visions of Heaven. That comes pretty close.
Vallory Vance
#21. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#22. He turned to shut and lock the door, then
came close, his gaze touching her features. "I missed you, Holly."
Her heart caught painfully. The poor organ seemed to be getting
quite the workout lately.
Jill Shalvis
#23. Special-needs rescues and older rescues have always had a close place in my heart, because those are the ones that tend to get looked over. That is why I love how North Shore Animal League America has their shelter set up.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
#24. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
#25. woman in a gentle embrace. "Thank you Martha, I will treasure your words and keep them close to my heart. No point in saying I'm not
Katie Wyatt
#26. In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.
Tim O'Brien
#27. We were created for intimacy, to connect with someone with heart, soul, and mind. Intimacy occurs when we are open, vulnerable, and honest, for these qualities help us to be close to each other.
Henry Cloud
#28. If you ever find yourself presented with a fork in the road of life and you do not know the correct direction, close your eyes and listen to your heart. I have found more adventure, more love, more happiness, and more life by listening to who I am, rather than attempting to tell myself.
Karen Hawkins
#29. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.
Mary Howitt
#30. In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Laozi
#31. Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
Sue Monk Kidd
#32. My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.
Ian Doescher
#33. What is Religion according to you?
"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.
Vishwas Mudagal
#34. Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.
Nimrat Kaur
#35. I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.
May Sarton
#36. I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Henry R. Luce
#37. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.
Criss Jami
#38. 'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.
Erica Durance
#39. Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you're proud of instead of something that you're ashamed of.
Lady Gaga
#40. Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.
Harry S. Truman
#41. Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean...
[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]
Samuel Hall Young
#42. Don't listen to the voice in your head, but pay close attention to the voice of your heart.
Maria Teresa De Donato
#43. Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#44. Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.
Tyra Banks
#45. Who has known heights and depths shall not again Know peace - not as the calm heart knows
Low, ivied walls; a garden close;
And though he tread the humble ways of men
He shall not speak the common tongue again.
Wheston Chancellor Grove
#46. I did a project on immigration, which is something that has always been close to my heart. For me, immigration was the way to evolve, to make people better.
Agathe Snow
#47. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.
Zack Love
#49. The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.
Bob Sorge
#50. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
Seraphim Rose
#51. It isn't easy to trust or be close to someone when the person I love won't even follow his own heart.
Jodi Meadows
#52. To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
John Ortberg
#53. Close all the books
Open the Heart's book
Read out loud and clear
And then you shall BE the TRUTH
And you shall be a mighty kindness.
Gabriel Iqbal
#54. In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.
China Mieville
#55. When you wake up everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
'Cause we are all a part of
the ordinary miracle
Sarah McLachlan
#56. What happens when you shut your eyes?
The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear.
See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.
J.R. Rim
#57. The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#58. Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.
Alexandra Katehakis
#59. What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,000 promises
That you promised me
You say I'll take you back
But I close the door
'Cause I don't want 10,000 more
Backstreet Boys
#60. That one look is like a knife stabbing straight through my heart. A heart that only beats when I'm in close proximity to the beauty sitting in front of me, now.
N.E. Henderson
#61. Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.
Josephine De La Baume
#62. He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly.
Akshay Vasu
#63. Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
John Oliver
#64. He shifted his body off of mine and tuckled me close against his warmth. I laid my head on his chest and listened to the comforting sound of his beating heart. Noah ran his hand through my hair. I'm glad you told me. This needs to be right for you and i'll wait, for as long as you need.
Katie McGarry
#65. Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
Claude Nicollier
#66. Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
Sit close and draw the table nigher;
Be merry and drink wine that is old,
A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.
John Fletcher
#67. We have waited long. Learn who to trust. It is heart that knows truth. Don't close eyes and wait for path to choose you. Choose path and follow it.
Erin Hunter
#68. I am a gardener
I plant hearts
I have no other knowledge
No language now
Close the language door and
open the heart portal
Where everything connects as ONE.
Gabriel Iqbal
#69. I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.
Mike Pence
#70. Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#71. I so envied the world around me. Don't get me wrong, I loved my own life too, but that didn't stop me from wishing I could close my eyes and slip into someone else's life. You know, explore the world with different eyes, a different heart.
Marilyn Grey
#72. Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
Donna Roberts
#73. Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss.
Eudora Welty
#74. Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new
Pam Brown
#75. I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.
Jimmy Carter
#76. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.
He held me close again. "I brought you back."
"Please tell me we only have to do that once."
He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke
Catrina Burgess
#77. Other people collected friends like badges but Lana chose only one - and that friendship was pinned so close to her heart that removing it had left behind a jagged tear.
Lucy Clarke
#78. Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.
Ann Romney
#79. You could close your heart to love forever, but you'd miss out on all the good that came with giving and receiving love. You had to decide if it was worth the risk.
J. Sterling
#80. My dear soul, flee from the worthless,
stay close only to those with a pure heart.
Like attracts like.
A crow will lead you to the graveyard,
a parrot to a lump of sugar.
Rumi
#81. Studies have actually shown that there is a very close positive relationship between insulin resistance and hypertension. Actually, diabetics who suffer from hypertension have double the risk of suffering from cardiovascular heart disease.
Janie Sanders
#82. Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?
Sorin Cerin
#83. I loved her every minute of every day, heart and mind and soul and all of it, and it was getting late and I wanted the place never to close, never.
Donna Tartt
#84. The light from his torch painted the barren forest in shades of his own reflection, black-haired, gray-eyed and pale for want of a touch. He pulled his cloak close, unable to determine which made him more uncomfortable: the dreary woods or the new moon settling onto his heart like a cloud of moths.
F.T. McKinstry
#85. He pulls my swaddled figure close to his chest and I shatter. Two three four fifty thousand pieces of feeling stab me in the heart, melt into drops of warm honey that soothe the scars in my soul.
Tahereh Mafi
#86. It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.
Barry Eysman
#87. I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
Nick Hornby
#88. A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.
Jasinda Wilder
#89. As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.
Nadeem Aslam
#90. And was it his destined part /
Only one moment in his life /
To be close to your heart?
Ivan Turgenev
#91. It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
Jenny Downham
#92. Of course there's a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself to get close to anyone ever again? Never know the joy of loving someone for fear that it could end up in tears? My heart might stay safe, but it wouldn't be much of a life.
Chantelle Shaw
#93. Holding you close to my heart makes me feel special.
In this moment, I am free to be me.
Zarina Bibi
#94. I felt like you could open a door in my hollow, tin chest
just flip it open, easy
and see my heart throbbing, raw and bloody and sore. You could even reach in and squish it if you wanted to. I didn't want anyone getting close enough to open that door and see that mess (250-251).
Natalie Standiford
#95. Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.
Tian Dayton
#96. I felt Red's arm close around me like a shield against the rest of the world. His mouth was against my hair, and his heart thumped violently under my cheek. I shut my eyes, and held onto his shirt with both hands, and wept.
Juliet Marillier
#97. Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.
Denzel Washington
#98. When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong - close to his heart.
Sally Lloyd-Jones
#99. Rob's breath were pushing over my ear, his chest puffing up underneath me. His heart were beating so close to my own that it calmed me for sheer distraction.
A.C. Gaughen
#100. Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
