Quotes About Withered Flowers

#1. In the girl's room on the chest of drawers stood the glass vase with the withered flowers, the water had evaporated, it was there that her blind hands directed themselves, her fingers brushed against the dead petals, how fragile life is when it is abandoned.

Jose Saramago

#2. But underneath it all she could not conceive that the boy the gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence withered flowers.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

Palmer Luckey

#4. All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other matters,
You can be me when I'm gone
Flowers gathered in the morning,
Afternoon they blossom on,
Still are withered in the evening,
You can be me when I'm gone.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Among his memories of the whole and the human, sharpest was that of Decker.

Clive Barker

#6. To praise is an investment in happiness.

David Dunn

#7. Flowers were blooming, withered soon.. Rains kept falling, wasn't forever.. Dogs were barking, just for sometime.. Sun, moon & stars were invisible at times, but they kept watching you.. Let them shine for you, before it's too late..

Heshan Udunuwara

#8. To be a Pharisee is not to understand kingdom principles

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes

Charles Dickens

#10. Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentile hand
Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined
In memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far off land.

Lewis Carroll

#11. But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people's heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered; and of a people's dream that died in bloody snow.

Black Elk

#12. Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Arthur Golden

#13. Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned,
The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots.
What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher?
As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.

Su Shi

#14. Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

John Gould Fletcher

#15. Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

Vince Neil

#16. I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.

Dick York

#17. The study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)

Robert Schumann

#18. The purpose of God for creating earth can be seen as an assignment which he requires everyone he created to fulfil

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#20. It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.

Ruth Rendell