Flower Quotes - Page 30

• Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Soul, Ashes, Looks

  6 Copy quote

• I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep. But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Song, Falling In Love, Lying

  4 Copy quote

• Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Kindness, Sadness

  Pablo Neruda (2002). “The Sea and the Bells”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

  473 Copy quote

  Show source

• And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Butterfly, Wings, Humanity

  15 Copy quote

• Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Moving, Reality

  "Collected Works", v. 3, " Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx, 1843.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

  Robert Frost

  Children, Home, Garden

  Robert Frost (1992). “Selected Poems”, Gramercy

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Horse, Cheer, Men

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Stars, Taken, Moon

  4 Copy quote

• I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner." - Wanda, The Host

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Remember You, Remembers You

  7 Copy quote

• Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Beautiful

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.65, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.

  Richard Kadrey

  Hurt, Children, Sorry

  4 Copy quote

• While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Heart, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

  Rumi

  Spring, Giving, Soul

  13 Copy quote

• Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Book, Men

  8 Copy quote

• I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Scent, Produce, Crushed

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.406, MIRA

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

  Alan Furst

  Know How, Knows

  8 Copy quote

• From now on, I promise I wil consult with you before I do anything you don't expect. Is that acceptable? Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members, she said. Or flowers. Or flowers, she agreed.

  Christopher Paolini

  Kings, Magic, Promise

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1676, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Blood, Long

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Long, Shows, Long Time

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.1102, Penguin

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such," Aphrodite said. "I'll go talk to flowers," Stevie Rae said.

  P. C. Cast

  Bulls, Aphrodite, Said

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

  Gunter Grass

  Running, Weed, Sky

  4 Copy quote

• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Love Is, Land

  7 Copy quote

• What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Snakes, Earth, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beautiful, Stars, Silence

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  World, Four, Thorns

  5 Copy quote