Flowerless Quotes

#1. Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

William Wordsworth

#2. The gods grant nothing more than life,
So let us reject whatever lifts us
To unbreathable heights,
Eternal but flowerless.

Pessoa, Fernando

#3. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Vita Sackville-West

#5. Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
And brighter from the contrast seems.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#6. At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.

Harriet Rubin

#7. I don't know what you can possibly do for less than $50 to have somebody come in your house.

Dave Barry

#8. We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Nick Lachey

#9. I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?'

Judith Butler

#10. I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change ... or die.

Roy Nelson

#11. I've never really been into doing a lot of social media, but it's a great way for people to talk amongst themselves on a large platform and to have a large conversation with people who also enjoy the same thing.

Mike Colter

#12. The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.

Brandon Bays

#13. There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage
a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.

Lauren DeStefano

#14. Things become clear when there is no escape.

Pema Chodron