Irony Quote by Anonymous

This thorn in my side is from the tree I planted, ooh it tears me.

— Metallica

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

— Maya Angelou

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

— Gerald Massey

“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is the season…

— John O'Donohue

Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

— Francesca Lia Block

Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I be afflicted…

— Rumi

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby…

— Rumi

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there…

— Anonymous

“those cries rose from among the twisted roots through which the spirits of the damned were slinking to hide from us. Therefore my Master…

— Dante Alighieri

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the…

— Dan Simmons

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

— Rumi