Bittersweet Quote by Sappho Download Open image “Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.” — Sappho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bittersweet Irrepressible Limbs Love Sensual
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Love, something sweet, something sour and often times something bitter. — Bhabes Alvarez Copy Share Image
In my past, bittersweet, There's no love between the sheets, Taste the blood, broken dreams, Lonely times indeed, With eyes cast down, Fixed upon… — Cage The Elephant Copy Share Image
“Love is an indescribable, cumbersome, silly-selfish, consuming, life-changing, goosebump-making, knowing-all-the-words-to-the-song exciting, I-can't-think-straight-without-him overwhelming, sigh-swooning, laugh-out-loud-for-no-reason anxious, fun, rule-causing, jealousy-inducing, leg-kicking, dream-giving, wonderful, filling, shake-trembling,… — YellowBella Copy Share Image
A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“But thou shalt ever lie dead nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or ever, for thou hast none of the roses… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho Copy Share Image
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speaks… — Sappho Copy Share Image
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us — Sappho Copy Share Image
“I can reveal to you that I wished to die - For with much weeping she left me Saying: "Sappho - what suffering is… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not… — Sappho Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.” — Marc Parent Copy Share Image
Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be” — Guadalupe Garcia McCall Copy Share Image
[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them… — Ekaterina Sedia Copy Share Image
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
“Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.” — Susan Oakey-Baker Copy Share Image