Heart Damage Quotes

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absoluteky betray me.

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

Injuries come only from the heart.

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what

A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.