„The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.“

— Jane Austen

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„Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.“
— William Shakespeare
„Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come…“
— Colette
„At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone … & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world….“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Now that my ladder’s gone,I must lie down where all the ladders startIn the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.“
— W.B. Yeats