Thorns Quotes
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I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
Emile Verhaeren -
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
Rumi
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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.
Elizabeth Hay -
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both.
Elizabeth Bear -
The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
Elisabeth Elliot