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
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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
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Look at this tangle of thorns.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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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