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  • one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

    Women   Heart   Kissing  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play And only You can see the good in broken things You took my heart of stone, and You made it home And set this prisoner free

    Home   Heart   Play  
    Song: Hallelujah, Album: Imagination, 2005
  • She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

    Heart   Stones   Might  
    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

    Anger   Heart   Stones  
  • He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

    Daughter   Father   Fall  
  • Years! Years, ye shall mix with me! Ye shall grow a part Of the laughing Sea; Of the moaning heart Of the glittered wave Of the sun-gleam's dart In the ocean-grave. Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own! For that I love Thy heart of stone! From the heights above To the depths below, Where dread things move, There is naught can show A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown! Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!

    Life   Ocean   Moving  
    "The Dirge of the Sea". Poem by Voltairine de Cleyre, April 1891.
  • Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

    Courage   Real   Lying  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”
  • And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

    Heart   Men   Law  
    Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

    Heart   Giving   Flesh  
    "Fictional character: Thomas Cromwell". "Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2012.
  • He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

    Strong   Hurt   Grandma  
    Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan
  • The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

    Dog   Heart   Animal  
    "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.
  • God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

    Heart   Reality   Law  
    Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
  • Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

    Heart   Teeth   Stones  
  • Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

    "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)
  • Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

    Heart   Flesh   Stones  
    Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.51, NavPress
  • The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

    Heart   Sorrow   Proud  
    Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.52
  • A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

    Heart   Science   Men  
    Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer (1987). “Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858”, p.279, Cambridge University Press
  • This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

    "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.
  • Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

    Heart   Stones   Beats  
    "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.
  • Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart of stone Keeps me aching with a yearning Keeps me glad to have been caught In the reckless raging fury That they call the love of God

    Heart   Fire   Burning  
  • One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

    Witty   Heart   Laughing  
    Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)
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