Constriction Quote by Alfred Hayes

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“how do we experience a contrite heart? a grieving, broken, sorrowing, repentant heart?”

— Richard J. Foster

“I was sickened by a cold heart and drowned in hate; I was buried in resentment and forgotten in spite.”

— Danielle Luz Matias

“Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Mine was the sort of heart that had to overcome melancholy and free itself from many depressing weights.”

— Saul Bellow

“There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with sorrow. There…

— Robert Goolrick

“- even in the midst of grief the mind grapples with a hundred impressions: a pain below the heart, an odor on the breeze.”

— Anthony Doerr

“I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.”

— Kristen Hope Mazzola

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic…

— Donna Tartt

“When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and…

— Susan Patron

“But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so long, my…

— Herman Hesse

“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now only impart…

— Guy de Maupassant