Limbs Quotes - Page 10

• O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Heart, Men

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• If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.

  Rumi

  Soul, Holy, Source

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• I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

  Guy Sajer

  Love, Disappointment, War

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• When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

  Robin Quivers

  Knows

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• We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Home, Past, Body

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• In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. . . .

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Brother, Soul, Faces

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.9

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• Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.971, Delphi Classics

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• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Jealous, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Failure, Long

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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• Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Snow, Tree, Stronger

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• In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Humanity, Extinction, Pushing

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black

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• Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

  John Donne

  Hair, Heaven, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Funeral'

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• Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves for the sun? You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness Cannot match your perfection.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Men, Perfection, Tree

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• Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!

  Picabo Street

  Dream, Fun, Expectations

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• I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

  Samuel Johnson

  Spirit, Consent

  Samuel Johnson, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.459

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• I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

  Jasper Carrott

  Funny, Dog, Thinking

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• [I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Exercise, Science

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• While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Sex, Agony

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• Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head, his feet didn't touch the ground. I could feel it then-a tiny miracle-so I followed him into the woods, crossed beneath the trees but only I left my prints in tow, he was afloat. He found a lonely tree and tied himself within its limbs, and he said to me these words: 'Don't you fear for me, I am where I'm supposed to be.'

  Radical Face

  Lonely, Brother, Feet

  Song: Severus and Stone, Album: The Family Tree: The Roots

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• I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts — Heaven, bless the merry child! He's father's self in face and limb, And father's heart is strong in him. Shout, baby, shout! and clap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands.

  Mary Howitt

  Baby, Strong, Children

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• It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Ambition, Agony

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.274, Pollinger in Print

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• Love Came....
  and became like blood in my body.
  It rushed through my veins and
  encircled my Heart.
  
  Everywhere I looked,
  I saw One Thing....
  Love's Name written
  on my limbs,
  on my left palm,
  on my forehead,
  on the back of my neck,
  on my right big toe...
  
  Oh, my friend,
  all that you see of me
  is just a shell,
  and the rest belongs to Love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Blood, Names

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• Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Practice, People

  Teresa Of Avila (2004). “The Interior Castle”, p.29, Penguin

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• There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Air, Names

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

  John Wyndham

  Freak, Companionship, Reason

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