Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• My Heart
• Crashed
• Inside Me

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• I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Excuse

• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Brain

• I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Real
  • Heart

• Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Memories
  • Garden

• My heart belongs to daddy.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • My Heart
  • Daddy

• Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Nervous
  • My Heart
  • Stomach

• There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Home
  • Playing
  • Angel

• I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • My Heart

• I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Soul
  • Doubt
  • Enjoy

• When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Hope
  • Forgiveness
  • Escape

• If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.

  

  Kari Jobe
  • Believe
  • Voice
  • My Heart

• Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little.

  

  Atsushi
  • I Think
  • My Heart
  • Stolen

• It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

  

  Henri Rousseau
  • My Heart
  • Open
  • Good

• I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

  

  Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • Hurt
  • Cry
  • My Heart

• There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Love
  • Name
  • My Heart

• I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Forget
  • Choice
  • My Heart

• My heart will never forget what it’s like to fade in and out of time, to never know if one year or a thousand have passed by, to torture yourself with the idea of your soul trapped behind ice for all eternity. I know what torture there is behind ice.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Forget
  • Eternity
  • Torture

• I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

  

  Kasey Kahne
  • Drove
  • Crashed

• It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.

  

  Minka Kelly
  • Mind
  • Unkind

• I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • World
  • Hate

• And hopefully, it'll be that way forever, because I don't want to be a part of any big controversy anymore. I was sick of talking about it. I just want to play basketball.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Forever
  • Sick
  • Basketball

• Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • My Heart
  • Crashed
  • Inside Me