Thorns Quotes

261 Thorns quotes by 202 unique authors

I Fall upon the thorns of life.... — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never… — Charles Dickens
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with… — Bruce Chatwin
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. — Khalil Gibran
But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well… — Robin McKinley
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come… — Pablo Neruda
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown… — Marquis de Sade
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. — Henry David Thoreau
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking… — Ramana Maharshi
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Khalil Gibran
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped… — Gregory Maguire
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns. — Unknown Author
every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns — Billy Joel
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. — William Penn
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower… — Daisaku Ikeda
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally… — William Carlos Williams
There is no rose without thorns. — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask… — Thomas Merton
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their… — George Eliot

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