Flower Quote by Jefferson Davis

“Roses have thorns,’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending beds of…

— Val Uchendu

And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“The thorns we endure in life are but shadowed by the precious petals of a rosey outlook.”

— Andrew Pacholyk

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

— Alphonse Karr

As I wandered, The very bowels of Hell, The fires, Torments, The Damned, Assailing me, I noticed in the distance, A most beautiful light.…

— Eric Nickel

And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

— Rumi

The thorns that wrap a wonderful rose shall condem us all.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.”

— Thomas Moore

“Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the…

— St. Francis de Sales

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Mary Shelley

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

— Cate Tiernan