Top 100 Quotes About Thorns
#1. And muddy. The long sleeves keep getting caught on thorns and branches as I run through the woods. The pack of muttation tributes draws closer and closer until it overcomes me with hot breath and dripping fangs and I scream myself awake. It's too
Suzanne Collins
#2. We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#4. I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?
Johnny Cash
#5. If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
Jeremy Taylor
#6. We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. 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
#8. The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
Nelson Mandela
#9. You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Gautama Buddha
#11. What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed
Horace
#12. All things on earth have their price, and for truth we pay the dearest. We barter it for love and sympathy. The road to honour is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your heart.
Olive Schreiner
#13. The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.
Pier Giorgio Frassati
#14. I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
Joanna Newsom
#15. I love you,' he whispered, and kissed my brow. 'Thorns and all.
Sarah J. Maas
#16. Crime scenes of pure sex, thorns on her body, blow-dry.
Laura Gentile
#17. What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them
or they cling to her
as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.
Patricia A. McKillip
#18. At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
#19. 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
#20. MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns.
HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.
Oscar Wilde
#21. If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flower with thorn?
even a flower with thorns.
then what's the good of thorns?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#22. Birds of prey and fierce piranha enter not into Nirvana, where are neither thorns nor nettles, only soft and fragrant petals.
John Biccard
#23. I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour
Alice Hoffman
#24. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
Idries Shah
#25. And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.
Jane Austen
#26. Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
Rahman Baba
#28. It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.
Marquis De Sade
#29. Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.
Jean Sasson
#30. Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.
Denis Diderot
#31. There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
Hal Borland
#32. If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
Elisabeth Elliot
#35. 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
#36. Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.
Lauren Willig
#37. 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
#38. Briar Rose awakens to grace us with her gentle presence once more."
"Shut up," says Vol.
"Your thorns are showing.
Nenia Campbell
#39. Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
Fay Weldon
#40. Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet.
Mav Skye
#41. The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. 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
#43. How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I
Stacey Lee
#44. In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.
John Tyler
#45. One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.
Oscar Wilde
#46. If love is a battlefield and we all get scars ... These were my reminders ... my necessary thorns.
Sabrina Childress
#48. Love for one another is built on the actions we take. Words that are said, are used for short comfort; but little do we know lies can be hidden in the riddle. Tread carefully through the puddle of roses for there, thorns await.
Ochir Napoleoni
#49. O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
#50. Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller
#51. Once you decide to grow out the roses from your heart, and let it spread the roots all over. you should also start to learn to handle the thorns that grow out of their stem.
Akshay Vasu
#52. Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns.
Amit Ray
#53. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#54. God put thorns around the
Love's door to stop anyone
who's not a Lover from entering.
Rumi
#55. When boys played "guerrilla warfare," which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say "hello" all the time.
Jung Chang
#57. 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
#58. Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Charles Fourier
#59. Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.
Jhonen Vasquez
#60. 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
#61. I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
Vusi Mahlasela
#63. It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great surprize to discover that Mr. Wyvern had been asleep for a hundred years or so. 'Well, I shall not mind that so much,' he thought, 'so long as I am not expected to kiss him.
Susanna Clarke
#64. Lirralei was a girl of storm
winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.
Rosamund Hodge
#65. Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour,
Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled
not apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison.
Dante Alighieri
#66. Though roses have thorns, they are still worth more than daises.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.
William Allingham
#68. And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#69. Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
J.C. Ryle
#70. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#71. If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
Ann Voskamp
#72. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.
Nema Al-Araby
#74. Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#75. It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower
Sarah Monette
#76. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
#77. Always seein' 'wayoff dreams of silver-blue,
Always feelin' thorns that slab and sting.
Yet stampedin' never made a dream come true,
So I ride around myself and sing.
Charles Badger Clark
#78. I told your daughter that she is like a rose." " True enough," said Lorenzo Daza "but one with too many thorns.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#79. Running through an unfamiliar forest filled with thorns is half an exercise in masochism, and half an obstacle course from the deepest reaches of Hell.
Seanan McGuire
#80. 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
#81. Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
John Milton
#83. Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.
Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.
Faraaz Kazi
#84. She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.
Beth Neff
#85. Normal was in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes the path to happiness involved bushwhacking and slicing and carving it until it yielded to individual desires. It wasn't simple, and there was no getting through it unscathed from the bleeding prick of thorns along the way.
Darien Cox
#86. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
#87. The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
Aminu Kano
#88. The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
James Stewart
#89. The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.
Sunao Yoshida
#91. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. After the winter of thorns came spring. The roses would bloom again. But if she lost Mr. Morland, she'd be chopping down the whole bush. Killing the thorns, to be sure, but killing the beautiful roses too. Just because she couldn't always see the flowers didn't mean they were not still there.
Julie Daines
#93. The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
Charles Francis Richter
#94. He had to do so, because he learned through the lesson of petals and thorns and a pretty girl that you are only worth how good your soul truly is.
Jenni James
#95. Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Petronius
#96. Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.
Tehyi Hsieh
#98. I've never been so hungry that I was willing to lick honey off thorns.
Sharon Kay Penman
#99. Be grateful for challenges because ... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.
Anandi Gopal Joshi
#100. Is there any one among you who believes he can be spared the way? Can he swindle his way past the pain of Christ? I say: Such a one deceives himself to his own detriment. He beds down on thorns and fire. No one can be spared the way of Christ, since this way leads to what is to come.
C. G. Jung
