Limbs Quotes
337 Limbs quotes by 273 unique authors
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was…
— Graham Greene
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Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your…
— Patrick Süskind
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius…
— Muhammad Ali
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...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness!…
— George MacDonald
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Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can…
— Unknown Author
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I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The…
— Alexander Pushkin
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I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose…
— Stephen King
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When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about…
— Jodi Picoult
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The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,…
— Brandon Mull
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and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say…
— Ani DiFranco
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but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
— Jimmy Carter
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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…
— James A. Baldwin
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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
— William Wordsworth
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Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long,…
— Richelle Mead
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Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring…
— David Gemmell
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He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of…
— Dave Eggers
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I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
— Lord Byron
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McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs…
— George Eliot
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and…
— Walter Scott
Who Wrote These Limbs Quotes
273 authors contributed a total of 337 Limbs Quotes, led by these top contributors: