Sappho
Poet
"Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done."
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Bittersweet
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sappho
Poet
"With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down"
Anne Carson
Poet
"To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope."
Jennifer Morrison
Actress
"In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it."
Will Smith
Actor, Producer, Rapper
"It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling."
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"Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble."
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"To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life."
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"I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it."
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"We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others."
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