Flowers Quotes
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No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.
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If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
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The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.
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He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
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The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.
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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
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I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
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Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room
