Nick Hornby Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Song, Pain

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

• I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Mind, Details

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

• We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Talking, Years

• That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Heart, Optimism

• Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Heart, Interesting

• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

• You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Thinking, Remember

• I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.

  Nick Hornby

  Live Life, Heart, Kids

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