Thorns Quotes

261 Thorns quotes by 202 unique authors

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
You knowâ€“my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesnâ€™t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.â€™ (Zarek) Why do you love that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without… — N.D. Wilson
Look at this tangle of thorns. — Vladimir Nabokov
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcastâ€”alternately tempestuous and sereneâ€”so is the life… — Edmund Burke
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. — Voltaire
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent… — Jhonen Vasquez
You know whatâ€™s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get… — David Levithan
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are,… — Colleen McCullough
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ… — Jeffrey R. Holland

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