Flower Quotes - Page 33

• If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.

  Daniel Dennett

  Care, Matter, Happens

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• I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Angel, Fading

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.664, Harvard University Press

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• It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Cutting, Men, Waiting

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.12, Penguin

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• I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Passion, Hunting

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

  Suzanne Collins

  Use, Brushes, Feels

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• Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Talking, Looks, Moments

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that

  Koushun Takami

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• It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Queens, Healing, Talking

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living

  Joel Osteen

  Appreciation, People, Giving

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• We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

  Andre Gide

  Summer, Lasts, Should

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• Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Paradox, Daisies, Bases

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were also assessing everything in the room, much as Eddie's gaze was. It was a guardian thing. Rose was about my height and dressed very casually in jeans and a red tank top. But, as always, there was something as exotic and dangerous about her beauty that made her stand out from everyone else. She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Dark, Jeans

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.38, Penguin

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• Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Down And, Hunger

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• (and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)

  e. e. cummings

  Rain, Gestures, Hips

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Zombie, Brilliant

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.765, Penguin

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• All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Sleep, Dark, Dust

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Eye, Home

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Roads Go Ever On”

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• And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Rain, Clouds

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Magic, Needs

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• Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fall—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon them— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Fall, Autumn, Night

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Rain, Sound, Showers

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1832). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Third Edition”, p.218

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• I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, Laughter, Tired

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

  Glen Duncan

  Silence, Dying, Three

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• A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

  Sylvia Plath

  Children, Hair, Self

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.17, Anchor

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