Heart Of Stone Quotes:

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

- Joseph Stalin

source: "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.

topic: Heart, Feelings, Humanity, Heart Of Stone

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

- Sid Waddell

source: "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.

topic: Heart, Stones, Muscles, Darts, Heart Of Stone

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

- Dan Wells

topic: Heart, Teeth, Stones, Lone Wolf, Heart Of Stone

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

- Thomas Campbell

source: Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.52

topic: Heart, Sorrow, Proud, Cold Heart, Heart Of Stone

He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

- Hilary Mantel

topic: Daughter, Father, Fall, Heart Of Stone

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

topic: Broken Heart, Sacrifice, Long, Heart Of Stone, Making Sacrifices

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Heart, Flesh, Stones, Ragamuffin Gospel, Heart Of Stone

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Reality, Law, Heart Of Stone

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Women, Heart, Kissing, Kissing Her, Heart Of Stone

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer (1987). “Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

topic: Heart Of Stone

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

topic: Witty, Heart, Laughing, Heart Of Stone

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

topic: Heart, Stones, Might, Heart Of Stone

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

- Sophocles

topic: Anger, Heart, Stones, Heart Of Stone

The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

- Charles Darwin

source: "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.

topic: Operators, Heart Of Stone, Vivisection

The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play And only You can see the good in broken things You took my heart of stone, and You made it home And set this prisoner free

- Bethany Dillon

source: Song: Hallelujah, Album: Imagination, 2005

topic: Home, Heart, Play, Broken Things, Heart Of Stone

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Men, Law, Heart Of Stone

Years! Years, ye shall mix with me! Ye shall grow a part Of the laughing Sea; Of the moaning heart Of the glittered wave Of the sun-gleam's dart In the ocean-grave. Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own! For that I love Thy heart of stone! From the heights above To the depths below, Where dread things move, There is naught can show A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown! Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!

- Voltairine de Cleyre

topic: Life, Ocean, Moving, Heart Of Stone, Moaning

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

topic: Courage, Real, Lying, Potency, Heart Of Stone

Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart of stone Keeps me aching with a yearning Keeps me glad to have been caught In the reckless raging fury That they call the love of God

- Rich Mullins

topic: Heart, Fire, Burning, Fire Burning, Heart Of Stone

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

- Alice Sebold

source: Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

topic: Strong, Hurt, Grandma, Heart Hurts, Heart Of Stone