Quotes About Heartbeats

#1. Feeling your heartbeats" - I placed my hand against his chest - "reminds me of his heartbeats."
"Running my fingers through your hair" - he tangled his hands through my blonde locks, making me gasp lightly - "helps me remember her.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#2. I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

Marjorie M. Liu

#3. You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

Chris Kyle

#4. I love you too, jelly bean. With every one of my fuckin' heartbeats.

Carian Cole

#5. A hundred hundred heartbeats ... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

Garth Nix

#6. The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

Michael Mullen

#7. I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Neil Armstrong

#8. I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Elizabeth Berkley

#9. Their heartbeats rushed through his body. His arms circled around her, just so he could keep himself from falling.

Betsy Cornwell

#10. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

Tayeb Salih

#12. Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Neil Armstrong

#14. Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void

Dean Cavanagh

#15. His pupils dilate when he sees me. His lips part as he momentarily forgets to marshal his expression, and I could swear he stops breathing for several heartbeats.

Susan Ee

#16. Moments left, Teddy thought. A handful of heartbeats. That was what life was. A heartbeat followed by a heartbeat. A breath followed by a breath. One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment.

Kate Atkinson

#17. effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy. take 365 times 317 as the median number of heartbeats in any twenty-four-hour period.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#18. A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

R.A. Salvatore

#19. Right now there's a man on the street outside my door
with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear.
He has cheeks like torn sheet music
every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears.
At his side there's a boy with eyes like an anthem
no one stands up for.

Andrea Gibson

#20. He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

Denis Johnson

#21. If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Richard Bach

#22. Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

James Nesbitt

#23. that's the thing with love - time doesn't exist with it. The only thing love counts is the heartbeats.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. I love the rain. It calms me down, somehow, soothes my reckless heartbeats. It's like chamomile tea for my soul.

Jodi Perkins

#25. Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus's time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec's, like two heartbeats falling into sync.

Cassandra Clare

#26. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

Vladimir Nabokov

#27. I love you," he said.
Icicles formed on his skin as she stared at him for several heartbeats. "Do you suppose that changes anything?"
"I want it to." He knelt at her feet, but didn't even dare touch her hand. "Don, I want it to meant everything. It should.

Melissa Marr

#28. I wondered if he knew how he controlled my heartbeats.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#29. Music always has to do with vibrations for me. I love to record everyone's heartbeats, in way. None of us beats at the same pace and a song is a magical moment where different entities, for a split second, meet up.

Lou Doillon

#30. I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

George Clinton

#31. His warmth fills the space between my heartbeats. I don't know what it is about him, but he lures me in so effortlessly and tangles my heart in a net.

Sarah Noffke

#32. I measure the moment
in the heartbeats I skip

David Levithan

#33. All we get are moments, Cole. One at a time, like heartbeats. Once all of them is gone, that's it. No do-overs. No repeats. Every moment possesses its down kind of magic and what we do with it counts. It counts.

Autumn Doughton

#34. newborns eventually ignore the lonely silence of a world without heartbeats.

N.K. Jemisin

#35. 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!

Xavier Dolan

#36. To love,
and all the heartache that weighs it down.

To love,
and all the heartbeats that lift it up.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#37. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.

Tim Farrington

#38. I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.

Lisa Kleypas

#39. Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

Cameron Dokey

#40. Something happens, and the words get synchronized with the person's heartbeats, and then you're actually praying without ceasing ...

J.D. Salinger

#41. My heartbeat keeps me alive. Your heartbeat lets me know I'm alive. Our heartbeats give me the reason to live.

Jessamine Verzosa

#42. There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

Susan Cheever

#43. Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#44. I could live a lifetime in just a few heartbeats of time.

Mary Calmes

#45. Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.

Markus Zusak

#46. You only control 2 things in life: where you spend your heartbeats & the attitude in which you spend them. All else is an illusion.

James Andrew Beck

#47. They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.

Peadar O'Guilin

#48. These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

Elizabeth Winder

#49. We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

Susan L. Taylor

#50. The world keeps spinning because you heartbeats exist

Brittainy C. Cherry

#51. Sometimes all we need is a hug that will make us feel home. The heartbeats that sound like a lullaby and the eyes which assure us that the world is not such a bad a place yet every time we stare into them.

Akshay Vasu

#52. I hug him. I forget about my fears, about who I am and who he is, and I hug him. He keeps a tight grip on me like I'm his last hope, like I'm the only thing holding him together. We are a mingle of limbs, a frantic mess of intertwined heartbeats racing one another.

Tammy Faith

#53. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

John O'Hara

#54. My days were but heartbeats to you. I hated you for that.

Dan Simmons

#55. They say sound never dies, but travels on in space
what happens to a man's heartbeats?
so many of them in fifty-six years
could they be gathered again, in some sort of condenser, and put to use once more?

Ayn Rand

#56. There's no such thing as a number of heartbeats. As long as your heart knows what forever means, it's possible that even in afterlife, it may still be beating.

Jessamine Verzosa

#57. We learned three things together, that first day of Ethan's humanity: skin warms skin, silver eyes light darkness, and our heartbeats measured time together, so that we knew we were no longer alone.

Vicki Keire

#58. We are nervous laughter and fast breath and faster heartbeats, alive alive alive.

Amy Zhang

#59. I was aware that he couldn't be trusted; that the classroom behind him was empty and would be empty for some time; that he was only a matter of heartbeats, a tug of my elbow, and a few whispered words away from pulling me into that room with him.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

#60. Her smile was lighter fluid to his testosterone. He was full caveman for a few heartbeats.

Debra Anastasia

#61. A handful of heartbeats. That was what life was. A heartbeat followed by a heartbeat. A breath followed by a breath. One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment. Life was a s fragile as a bird's heartbeat, fleeting as the bluebells in the wood.

Kate Atkinson

#62. We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

David Brin

#63. One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates ...

Helen Keller

#64. I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Neil Armstrong

#65. Hear the heartbeats of a nation
silenced together on the impatient
winds of change,
And deafen your ears to the words of
one. Melodized by emancipation..
Then open your eyes,
open your eyes for me:
Darling, freedom to you is
a freedom to none.

Nema Al-Araby

#66. My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

Lauren Oliver

#67. I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

Jasper Fforde

#68. Our heartbeats ... they're the same.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#69. Neither the secret whirring song of the stars nor the sonorous canticles of the earth knew the language that sprang up in the space between us. It was a dialect of heartbeats, strung together with the lilt of long suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future.

Roshani Chokshi

#70. If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

#71. Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart

Munia Khan

#72. Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.

Rachel Van Dyken

#73. How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?

Girdhar Joshi

#74. Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love

Munia Khan

#75. That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you- like a new heart, beating in time with another's.

Muriel Barbery

#76. We all have our own rhythms to walk to.

Lauren Lola