Sappho
Poet
"Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done."
Limbs quotes
Limbs
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sappho
Poet
"Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble."
Sappho
Poet
"How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away"
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them."
George Herbert
Poet
"Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another."
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"Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof."
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"Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!"
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"The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs."
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"I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits"
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"Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest."
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