Nicole Krauss Quotes about Heart

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

Heart, Giving, Mind

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact.

Nicole Krauss

Lying, Heart, Impact

Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.

Nicole Krauss

Party, Heart, Sadness

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

Nicole Krauss

Couple, Writing, Heart

Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always at the heart of life. No matter how old you are, to me life is always about changing and growing and discovering and that's not always easy.

Nicole Krauss

Heart, Reality, Thinking

Source: therumpus.net

Nicole Krauss Quotes about Heart

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