Brutal Quote by Jean Genet

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

— Jean Genet

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.

— Octave Mirbeau

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

— Octave Mirbeau

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

— Steven Morrissey

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

— John Ruskin

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

— Sigmund Freud

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

— Karl Kraus

The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

— William Wordsworth

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

— Elizabeth Kata

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

— Anne Frank