Thorns Quotes

261 Thorns quotes by 202 unique authors

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,… — Voltaire
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit… — Lord Byron
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage… — George Santayana
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Your thorns are the best part of you. — Marianne Moore
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 oneâ€™s tastes and oneâ€™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

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