„Or from Browning some “Pomegranate,” which, if cut deep down the middle,shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.“
— Haruki Murakami
„A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.“
— Arthur Rimbaud
„When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.“
— Edvard Munch
„We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.“
— Carl Sagan
„Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.“
— Jim Butcher