A Quote by Sappho

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

Sappho

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Away How Limb Love Me

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Sappho
Greek - Poet

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

Abdu'l-Bahá

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Sappho

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Sappho

If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.

Lisa Jewell

How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines.

Elfriede Jelinek

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Eric Hoffer

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

James Baldwin

When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Sarah Dunn

Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

Joan of Arc

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

Holly Near

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Mort Walker

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

Francesca Lia Block

The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.