Katherine Anne Porter Heart Quotations

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart ...

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.