Pierced Heart Quotes

#1. The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

Lydia Millet

#2. In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse ... saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart.

Kaye Gibbons

#4. There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Felicia Hemans

#5. She laughed, and the sound pierced his heart.

Carolyn Jewel

#6. The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.

Gore Vidal

#8. It pierced the heart ... and there was blood all around ... soaking his hands in it, he tried wiping her tears ...

Anushka Bhartiya

#9. My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Jean Genet

#10. Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11. I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

William Shakespeare

#12. Sin pierced the very heart of God. God felt every piercing nail and spear thrust. God felt the burning sun. God felt the mocking derision and the body blows.

Billy Graham

#13. She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way.

Faraaz Kazi

#14. Fully revealed, the green eyes pierced her heart. In them, she sensed pain, loneliness and despair. Yet they weren't seeing her. Focused on the movement of the blade, the mesmerizing gaze seemed a world away. Stroke after stroke, the unmasked face appeared in the mirror.

Chris Lange

#15. Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn't understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Melika Dannese Lux

#16. Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.

Hans Christian Andersen

#17. She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Being without my dear one made my heart ache like it had been pierced with thousands of daggers that had been placed in ice and covered in salt.

Jillian Kleine Der Lowe

#19. A sharp and familiar pang pierced his heart, rattled around his ribs, and then settled in his stomach like a rotting, dead weight. He took a swig of his Jack on the rocks, the burn not quite dulling the ache that had haunted him for two decades. God, he missed Anna. Enforcer's Redemption

Carrie Ann Ryan

#20. Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. "Nothing holds me here.

Kiersten White

#21. Whores, instead of claiming what's rightfully yours. Pierced a hole in my heart from all the pain you caused, with no direction you left your first born lost.

Ja Rule

#22. The concern and love I saw in her features pierced my heart, and like that, the anger went out of me.

Richelle Mead

#23. There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart.

Susan Juby

#24. Who is this brave woman," he said softly between gasps, "who has pierced my heart?" Rivka smiled, at peace, and held him. She was still wearing her sword.

Shira Glassman

#25. Its great thorns pierced the canvas, and its heavy fragrance rushed within, enveloping his sleep, becoming one with his breath, and penetrated the chambers of his exploding heart.

Patti Smith

#26. I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.

Mary Pickford

#27. When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

Jocelyn Murray

#30. He was beautiful in a way that pierced the heart. He was beautiful in the way the universe had been made, from darkness and silence into light and song.

A.M. Daily

#31. My name might be Arrow, but it was Hopp who'd pierced my heart like one. I

Cambria Hebert

#32. My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Saint Augustine

#33. Do you know what it's like to kill a man? You just pushed a knife into living, moving skin and you realize you pierced a heart that beats against your sharp knife.
-Lucas Tyrel

L'Poni Baldwin

#34. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Sara Teasdale

#35. I can't remember the poem
That pierced through my heart
It was the saddest I heard
Of all truths ever spoken
It left a scar in me
A wound that doesn't heal
But the words are forgotten
So is a big part of me

A.A. Patawaran

#36. Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed e subito sera
Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world,
pierced by a ray of sunlight,
and suddenly it's evening

Salvatore Quasimodo

#37. Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.

Jane Hamilton

#38. Your thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation.

Euginia Herlihy

#39. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?

P.A. Minyard