Heart Pounding Quotes:

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jul 06, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Change, Courage, Fear Of The Future, Time For A Change

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

- John Green

source: John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.44, A&C Black

topic: Fun, Heart, Said, Margo Roth Spiegelman, Heart Pounding

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

- Dale Archer

topic: Heart, Sleep, Racing, Can't Sleep, Heart Pounding

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

- John Towner Williams

topic: Heart, Thinking, Boston, Old Churches, Fenway Park

I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

- John Lennon

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Religious, Pain, Heart, Painful Moments, Heart Pounding

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

- Edward G. Robinson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Play, Yesterday, Heart Pounding

An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

- Jeff Abbott

topic: Revenge, Heart, Responsibility, Stunning, Heart Pounding

Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.

- S.G. Browne

topic: Book, Heart, Writing, Pacing, Heart Pounding

Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.

- Megan Abbott

topic: Running, War, Liars, Espionage, Temptress

Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls it off. For readers who want nonstop action infused with powerful, life-changing themes, North! Or Be Eaten is a must-read.

- Wayne Thomas Batson

topic: Powerful, Life Changing, Heart, Busting, Powerful Life

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

- Amy Yasbeck

topic: Girl, Sarcastic, Heart, Strolling, Trekking

..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

- Elizabeth Scott

source: Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Heart, Wind, Heart Pounding

Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Heart Pounding

You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

- Kim Harrison

topic: Heart, Expression, Vehement, Newts, Heart Pounding

But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.

- Kirsten Miller

topic: Morning, Eye, Heart, Heart Pounding

I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.

- Rachel Vincent

source: Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.206, Harlequin

topic: Heart, Kissing, Names, Spun, Flailing

For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, and then he was kissing her—or she was kissing him, she wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter. The feel of his mouth on hers was electric; her hands gripped his arms, pulling him hard against her. The feel of his heart pounding through his shirt made her dizzy with joy. No one else’s heart beat like Jace’s did, or ever could.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1371, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Kissing, Hands, Kissing Her, Heart Beat

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Heart, Rose, Alive, Heart Pounding

I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.

- Jeff Lindsay

topic: Beautiful, Rip, Heart, Almost There, Heart Pounding

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things because the odds against success stymie them. The best performers ignore the odds. I will show you that instead of limiting themselves to what's probable, the best will pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams-so long as catching them might be possible.

- John Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Heart, Heart Pounding