Bitter Quote by Lucretius

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

— Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

— Lucretius

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

— Lucretius

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

— Augustus Hare

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

— Lord Byron

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

— William Cowper

“If with the water’s rosy hue comparison be made, Carmine tears and dewy flowers seem of the self-same shade. Yet lady’s tears and flowers…

— Cao Xueqin

“The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the…

— Sir Walter Scott

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

— Osbert Sitwell

“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality, with which…

— Marcel Proust

“...is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude. And stretch towards the heaven their long and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The world laughs in flowers.

— Henry David Thoreau