“Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month” IfsRunningFallHeavenKnownTroubleTreeLandMonthsRight NowShotsShadowDecidedFortuneSakeInjurySwearBeatenArrowsSwear To GodBad Fortune Book:Ransom Source: Ransom
“I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.” WorldStillsEndsSometimesEarthSunPathTreeSeaMoonShadowWaveWideInvisibleCeaseClaritySuitsAcquireRemarkableFarmsSteadyObjectivityLiberatedGrapesPondsVinesSlopesBeing MyselfExpanse Author:Fernando Pessoa
“God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.” FirstsBodyEyeBeautifulFacesWaterSunTreePoetHairShadowPraiseDesertHer EyesPalmsFountainSlenderMiragesHer SmilePalm TreesCool Water Book:Samarkand Source: Samarkand
“September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.” GivingShouldYearsWholeNextLeftFireTreeHairWallMonthsKissingShadowDancingLondonRememberedAutumnLeapSeptemberScentVitalityWaterfallsPerplexedFireplaces Book:Autumn Journal Source: Autumn Journal
“Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.” DarkSilenceTreeQuietShadowWeightPossessedLapTangibleDark Trees Book:A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.” WorldBlackDarkWhiteSilenceTreeSkyPureShadowDown AndLaysSnowThickTowersGreyStatuesUnbrokenGrey Skies Author:George R. R. Martin
“Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.” CharacterBusinessTreeShadowReputation Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.” CharacterLightTreeDependsShadowReputationAngle Author:Michael Josephson
“To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.” ThinkingTreeShadowPity Book:The Secret Stair Source: The Secret Stair
“This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.” MenWorldHas BeensCareHumanityPeaceDifferencesPerfectKindnessGraceTreeShadowUnityFavorsExcellentReconcileLoving KindnessIncumbents Author:Bahá'u'lláh
“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"” YearsVoiceTreeThousandShadowTonightThousand YearsHalloweenUnseenCreepySpookyHappy HalloweenFunny HalloweenScary HalloweenHalloween WishesInspirational HalloweenFunny Happy HalloweenChristian HalloweenHalloween LoveHalloween And FriendsCute HalloweenHalloween GreetingHalloween TumblrSpooky HalloweenHalloween CardHalloween JokesHalloween NightHalloween PartyRising Again Author:Dexter Kozen
“All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.” YearsPlayLightSongCoursesGamesSleepAnimalSunGenerationsTreeSweetWindEternalShadowEternityRecoveryOppressionEach DayFriendlyDelicateGesturesCrownsScentBudSapLight And ShadowFoliageSwaying Author:Hermann Hesse
“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?” ScienceEnvironmentTreeSkyHigherOrdinaryShadowAncientWoodsStrikesAwfulBranchesStillnessDoomedDeitiesGloomGroveForests And TreesCavernsGreen TreesTree BranchesAncient Trees Author:Seneca the Younger