Top 80 Quotes About Rose Thorns
#1. For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#2. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.
Beth Neff
#4. Love is a rose
But you better not pick it.
It only grows
When it's on the vine.
Handful of thorns
And you'll know you missed it.
You lose your love
When you say the word MINE.
Neil Young
#5. I told your daughter that she is like a rose." " True enough," said Lorenzo Daza "but one with too many thorns.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#6. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
#7. It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower
Sarah Monette
#8. But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
#9. Lirralei was a girl of storm
winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.
Rosamund Hodge
#10. You're the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You're the light people crawl through darkness for. You're the good that balances out all the bad.
Jeannine Allison
#11. The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
Charles Francis Richter
#12. Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns.
Amit Ray
#13. Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#14. Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet.
Mav Skye
#15. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
William Shakespeare
#16. Briar Rose awakens to grace us with her gentle presence once more."
"Shut up," says Vol.
"Your thorns are showing.
Nenia Campbell
#17. A Halloween flower,
if ever there was one,
would smell like an onion,
have thorns like a rose.
With charcoal black petals
and vines that entangle,
t'would grow under moonlight
in mud, I suppose.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
Danny Meyer
#19. Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.
Jean Sasson
#20. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
Idries Shah
#21. They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
Martin Luther
#22. There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
Marquis De Sade
#23. Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.
Anonymous
#25. rose symbolizes balance - the flower is the beauty and the contrasting thorns are a reminder that love can be painful.
Mia Sheridan
#26. Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.
Lynda La Plante
#27. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#29. Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Petronius
#30. You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns
Aries Eroles
#31. God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.
Walter Savage Landor
#32. Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#33. Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play.
George Fox
#34. He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
Charles Spurgeon
#35. Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot.
They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.
Shay Caroline
#36. Contentment is a rose, and the daily increase of our wants, are the thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#37. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.
Felix Adler
#38. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Olga Broumas
#39. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
LeCrae
#41. The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#42. What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
Arthur Guiterman
#44. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
Alan Keyes
#45. I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
Rumi
#46. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.
Renee Ahdieh
#47. You can be a beautiful rose, but all some people will see are your thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
Cate Tiernan
#49. Love sees the thorns but cherishes the rose anyway.
Jeffrey Fry
#50. I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.
Kangin
#51. She was a rare white rose in a kingdom of thorns, and she wouldn't let anyone stain her petals red.
Alex Johnson
#52. As a rose is beautiful despite its thorns, you are beautiful despite your flaws.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.
Cate Tiernan
#54. A rose without its thorns would be too perfect to be admired.
Similarly, people without imperfections would be apathetic.
Chirag Tulsiani
#55. As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty
Cate Tiernan
#57. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.
Ideaswar
#58. The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.
Joseph Simmons
#60. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. Have you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.
Lang Leav
#62. You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast - alternately tempestuous and serene - so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
Edmund Burke
#64. If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes
#65. Know that a rose without thorns has never been plucked
Shota Rustaveli
#66. And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.
Zygmunt Bauman
#67. Rose LeBlanc got her name for a reason. She was full of fucking thorns. She was so beautiful - so ridiculously, unbelievably alluring - that just like real roses, she grew little spikes to protect herself. Because everyone wanted to have her.
L.J. Shen
#68. Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.
Richard Due
#69. You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice
Because the thorns have a rose.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
Vincent De Paul
#71. Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Isaac Watts
#72. I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#73. The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
Henry Van Dyke
#74. A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.
Lisa Kogan
#75. Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns ... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.
Gosho Aoyama
#77. Every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns
Billy Joel
