Thorns Quotes

261 Thorns quotes by 202 unique authors

Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise… — Anthony de Mello
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns. — Manmohan Acharya
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is… — Pier Giorgio Frassati
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. — Gerald Massey
I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals — Arthur Guiterman
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE. — Oliver Cromwell
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O… — Unknown Author
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! — Elizabeth of Hungary
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. — Olga Broumas
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. — G I Gurdjieff
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ… — Matthew Sweet
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the… — Barbara Johnson
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she… — Kenji Miyazawa
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the… — Swami Vivekananda
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in… — Unknown Author
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western… — Bruce Chatwin
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
I am thankful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr

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