Character Quote by Albert Schweitzer

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

— Walter Scott

“The weeping willows, on the other hand, are evocative of death. They are a little contrived, a little exaggerated, still green in the middle…

— Joseph Roth

“When the storm comes, the formidable oak breaks easily, but the flowing willow bends and sways in the wind. When the storm's over, the…

— NZ Kaminsky

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

— Robert Jordan

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

— Frank Herbert

“The willow is full plumage and is no help, with its insinuating whispers. Rendevous, it says. Terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a…

— Margaret Atwood

“It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.”

— Panache Desai

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

— Henry David Thoreau

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

— William Carlos Williams

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

— Samuel Richardson

“Important events — whether serious, happy or unfortunate — do not change a man's soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a…

— Irene Nemirovsky