“The people I most strive to please Do me the worst injuries...”
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Sappho Quotes
“What was my mad heart dreaming of?”
“You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.”
“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….”
“I asked myself What, Sappho, can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?”
“Suddenly Dawn in gold sandals”
“When anger is flooding through your chest best to quiet your reckless barking tongue”
“My pain drips May winds and sorrows carry off him who blames me”
“Now in my heart I see clearly a beautiful face shining back on me, stained with love”
“When their souls grew cold they dropped their wings to their sides”
“Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor but by mixing both you are on the peak of joy.”
“Doriha commands them not to come she is arrogant like young men who are loved”
“It is not right in a house serving the Muses to have mourning. For us it is unbecoming.”
“Really, if you are my friend, choose a younger bed I can't bear to live with when I am the older”
“Yet I love refinement and Eros has got me brightness and the beauty of the sun.”
“Atthis, you looked at what I was And hated what you saw”
“Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now - no, never quite like this.”
