Cypresses Quotes

#1. She inhales the peppery warm breath of the cypresses. She loves their scent. It's a scent that seems to make moments memories even before they've stopped happening.

Glenn Haybittle

#2. I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable

#4. I used to love the storms when I was younger,' Grump said. "I would climb the cypresses and leap into the sky and roar at the thunder. There's nothing like flying into the rain and embracing the wind. It's true freedom.

Aaron Burdett

#5. The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. It is so still and transcendent, the cypress trees poise like flames of forgotten darkness, that should have been blown out at the end of the summer. For as we have candles to light the darkness of night, so the cypresses are candles to keep the darkness aflame in the full sunshine.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers ...

D.H. Lawrence

#8. The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Margaret Fuller

#9. Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

Robert Herrick

#10. He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Plautus

#11. The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of God versus the gods.

Walter Brueggemann

#12. Original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted.Eve was afraid to follow her path without someone to help her and so she wanted to share what she was feeling.

Paulo Coelho

#13. As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

Kate Bernheimer

#14. It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

Confucius

#15. We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.

Os Guinness

#16. The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

Arthur Waley

#17. There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

Georges Braque

#18. Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

Confucius

#19. He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Dorothy Parker

#20. I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

Harry Reid

#21. Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

Hermann Hesse

#22. The oak ... has not the efficacy of the fir , nor the cypress that of the elm .

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#23. The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#24. I was punished for communicating,

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#25. Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

Harriet Lerner

#26. When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me

Christina Rossetti

#27. I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

Dean Koontz

#28. Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

#29. If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Alice Sebold

#30. For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

Thomas Campbell