Bitterness Quote by Jim Elliot

Love is a frail leaf falling off a tree at fall.

— Mehdi Guichi

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the…

— Edmund Burke

The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport…

— Francis of Assisi

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet…

— Joyce Kilmer

“T is sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels, By blood or ink; 't is sweet to put an end To strife; 't…

— George Gordon Byron

What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they…

— W.B. Yeats

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

— Ignatius of Loyola

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

— John Knowles

“How calmly does the orange branch Observe the sky begin to blanch Without a cry, without a prayer, With no betrayal of despair. Sometime…

— Tennessee Williams

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they…

— William Butler Yeats

“Thus they fell: for Heaven to them no hope imparts, To those who hear not for their beating hearts. A maiden-angel and her seraph-lover,…

— Anonymous