Dark Trees Quotes

• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dark, Silence, Tree

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.36, Macmillan

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• 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

  Dark, Night, Rose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.112, Jester House Publishing

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Clever, Loneliness, Jealous

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.200, Anchor

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• Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Tree, Leaving

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.107, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.186, Chapman and Hall

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• They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Dark, Past

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.339

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