The Woodcutter Quotes

#1. The woodcutter brushed the dust from his beard and reflected on how sphinxes would live much longer if they asked a different riddle.

Kate Danley

#2. Oh, Lady," said the woodcutter, "my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry.

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. Axel and Fable, their father was a woodcutter, and they live in a Candy House? Axel is always hungry, and eats too much candy, and Fable is fond of eating bread. It doesn't get easier than that to know who they really are.

Cameron Jace

#4. Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#5. If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#6. So what to do? ... She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.

Reginald Hill

#7. When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Matsuo Basho

#8. And did the book have any adventures for people who had brown eyes and brown hair? No, no, no ... it was the blond people with blue eyes and the redheads with the green eyes who got the stories. If you had brown hair you were probably ... a woodcutter or something.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

Linda Dillow

#10. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.

Chirag Tulsiani

#11. The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal.

Thomas Bernhard

#12. I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence.
"A person's always more than his present occupation.

Gerald Morris

#13. Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Alethea Kontis

#14. They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.

Alethea Kontis