Quotes About Fallen Flowers

#1. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers

Unknown

#2. For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Cao Yu

#3. I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

Fanny Burney

#4. Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.
I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.
They're things known from the outside.
But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.

Alberto Caeiro

#5. I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

Connie Stevens

#6. If I don't try to move, I don't have to find out what parts don't work. Lauren Crowder to Alan Gregory

Stephen White

#7. To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

Bruce Lee

#8. Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Many seeds had fallen in the stony places of his spirit, to spring luxuriantly up into stalky plants and wither again because they had no deepness of earth; many had been sown there and had died, since his mother scattered the seeds of the wild flowers

Aldous Huxley

#10. How much I wanted to move into these rooms and live forever in this domain of medieval autumns and mute winters, serving out my sentence of life among all the visible and invisible wonders I had only dreamed about from so far away.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.

Wang Wei

#12. ... but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?

Yukio Mishima

#13. I hear laughter and suck in a breath when I realize it's mine ... and his. Together. It sounds nice. Kind of like music.

Katie McGarry

#14. He asked them to close their eyes, and hoped their mouths would follow suit. p. 137

Anthony Marra

#15. Life isn't worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year.

Lauren Groff

#16. If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Gordon Livingston

#17. By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him.

Jeaniene Frost

#18. I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Susan Sontag

#19. Flowers bloomed without glimpsing your smile in spring, leaves have fallen in autumn chiming in with the gloom, the chill of winter has gone and now is the first light of summer without you near but in our hearts will forever hold you dear ... Elizabeth's Shorter Poems

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#20. A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought
But no, a butterfly.

Arakida Moritake

#21. Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?

D.B.C. Pierre

#22. There are some things you can never return from. Some things you can never undo.

Elissa Sussman

#23. Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

Donna Karan

#24. For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, like the flowers that falleth on the grass, like the wine that is poured out and soaks into the earth.

Marion Zimmer Bradley