Quotes About Heart Strings

#1. Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

Isaac Watts

#2. There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Lucy Larcom

#3. They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

John Ford

#4. Never let anyone pull at your heart strings unless they plan on permanently tying them to their own - Anonymous

Katie Ashley

#5. The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.

Hayley Williams

#6. Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

Mark Carwardine

#7. I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

Mike Colter

#8. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

George Eliot

#10. It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#11. Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

Macklemore

#12. She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

A.B. Shepherd

#13. Someone is assigned to not only hear your heart's song but will strum your heart strings melodically. Listen with your heart.

Sanjo Jendayi

#14. They say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

George Orwell

#15. Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home.

Nikki Rowe

#16. Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

Robert D. Hare

#18. The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move.

Hafsa Shah

#19. Belief in love can be hard, but faith in the romantic strings played by fate is faith in the symmetrical symphony sweetly delivered to comfort the screams of your heart

Gaiven Clairmont

#20. There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

Charles Dickens

#21. When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose.

Jonny Greenwood

#22. O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

William Shakespeare

#23. Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

Mercedes Lackey

#24. I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?

Rumi

#25. The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Saadi

#26. You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Karen Quan

#27. The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

Gerald Massey

#28. What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

Thomas Hobbes

#29. But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.

Jodi Picoult

#30. If you choose to give and give of your own free will, give with a good heart, expecting absolutely nothing in return and holding no strings over those you give to.

Mary Solomon

#31. I could feel the threads forming, from my heart to his. Threads that would become strings, until I was all wrapped up in him and couldn't separate myself from him without feeling like half a person.

Cindi Madsen

#32. How can I bribe my tongue to speak as truth the things my heart so contradicts. Attach to me then your strings and pull and I shall dance and be your puppet ... for a time

Tonny K. Brown

#33. Man said, I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

Henry Van Dyke

#34. so she pulled on all her puppet-strings and ignored how they pulled right back until they nearly ripped right out of her heart to leave it bleeding.

Cole McCade

#35. There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

#36. I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

Jennifer Donnelly

#37. "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated ... "

Charles Dickens

#38. One must have the music in his heart before he can play it on the strings.

Carlos Montoya

#39. Her heart is played like well worn strings
In her eyes the sadness sings
Of one who was destined of better things

Lang Leav

#40. When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.

Karen Quan

#41. My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

Amy Lowell

#42. Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
All many be well.

William Shakespeare

#43. You cannot taste a song
but you can feel the tune relishing your heart
where strings of music belong.

Munia Khan

#44. The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

James Russell Lowell

#45. Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in an angel's form, a lyre with strings of steel, sounding sweet-sad epithalamiums to the heavens, then why should she not find that being?

Gustave Flaubert

#46. While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

Henry Ward Beecher

#47. Don't break my heart," he heard her whisper, making him stop for just a second to look her in the eyes.
"I won't. Don't break mine," he responded, making her smile as she pulled him back to her. She wanted his lips on hers again.

Kat Green

#48. I love you like a guitar loves hands. The strings of my heart will never sing without your touch.

Debasish Mridha

#49. He has studied all the live strings of the human heart in the same way as one studies the veins of a dead body.

Mikhail Lermontov