Beating Heart Quotes

“It is quite rare to encounter a truly creative and productive person who resides in his own stillness or simply in the midst of his melody, close to the honest beating of his heart!”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life

“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through space. In a way, I’m glad: this means perhaps 300 years and 364 days have passed, and tomorrow I will wake up. Sometimes after a cross-country meet or a long day at school, I’d fall into bed with all my clothes on and be out before I knew it. When I’d finally open my eyes, it would feel like I’d just shut them for a minute, but really, the whole rest of the day and half the night was gone. But. There were other times when I’d collapse onto my mattress, shut my eyes and dream, and it felt like I’d lived a whole lifetime in that dream, but when I woke up, it had only been a few minutes. What if only a year has gone by? What if we haven’t even left yet? That is my greatest fear.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Have you ever wondered
what it feels like the first time
that your heart takes a beat?
Was it something like the first time
that I saw you and suddenly knew
that the first beat was for you?”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“What beats will capture our hearts, racing against these stolen, slow moving hours.”
― Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

“The frantic storm continued to rage around the house as I moved down the gloomy gallery. The sound of the wind and rain were joined by the crashing of the mill wheels, turning monotonously yet faster than usual. It sounded like the beating heart of the house.”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders

“It sounded like the beating heart of the house.”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders