David James Duncan Quotes about Heart

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

David James Duncan

Heart, Sometimes, Music Is

David James Duncan (2012). “River Teeth: Stories and Writings”, p.195, Dial Press

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

David James Duncan

Love, Heart, Bags

David James Duncan (2015). “The River Why”, p.290, Hachette UK

The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

David James Duncan

Christian, Prayer, Heart

At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

David James Duncan

Pain, Real, Heart

Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.

David James Duncan

Song, Writing, Heart

David James Duncan Quotes about Heart

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