Limbs Quotes

337 Limbs quotes by 273 unique authors

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease… — Khalil Gibran
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with… — Victor Hugo
James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he… — Laini Taylor
I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the… — Julia Cameron
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes,… — Stefan Zweig
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her… — John Crowley
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;… — C.S. Lewis
‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on… — Lauren DeStefano
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing… — William Shakespeare
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. — Audre Lorde
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an… — Aristotle
Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of… — Tana French
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of… — Janet Frame
It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than… — Thomas Hardy
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings;… — Kristin Hannah
It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin… — Conrad Aiken
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… — Francesca Lia Block
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin… — Khalil Gibran
The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear… — Rudolf Steiner
Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult… — Chelsea Handler
It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites… — Joe R. Lansdale
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. — William Shakespeare
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well… — Tom Perrotta

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