„General, the battle draws to a close and I make my report. This is where and how I fought. I fell wounded, lost heart, but did not desert. Though my teeth clattered from fear, I bound my forehead tightly with a red handkerchief to hide the blood, and ran to the assault.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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„And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closesIts bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.“
— Sylvia Plath
„I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.“
— Dan Millman
„I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.“
— Jane Austen
„What can I do with this memory?Shake the bones out of it?Defoliate the smile?Stub out the chin with cigarettes?Take the face of the man I loveand squeeze my foot into it,when all the while my heart is making a museum?I love you the way the oboe plays.I love you the way skinny dipping makes my body feel.I love you the way a ripe artichoke tastes.Yet I fear you,as one in the desert fears the sun.“
— Anne Sexton
„Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery;that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth.I repaid vileness with doves.“
— Pablo Neruda
„Then such grief took possession of my soul that my heart was wrung, and I felt as though I were dying; and then . . . then I awoke.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky