A Quote by Sappho

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Sappho

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Bittersweet Irrepressible Limbs Love Tremble

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Sappho
Greek - Poet

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

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

Hesiod

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

William Lloyd Garrison

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Willem de Kooning

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

Robert Breault

I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.

Andrew Bird

Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah. This means whatever the outcome of the limbs' striving, the heart will be completely satisfied, knowing that it is the flawless decision of Allah. But in order to reach this level, one must hold on to hope, strive with the limbs, and let go with the heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

I'm always lobbying for the irrepressible strength of love.

Gregory Porter

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

Michelangelo

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

Kehinde Wiley

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

Aurora Guerrero

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

Rumi

When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

Martin Luther

Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.