Thorns Quotes

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

“I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“THE WEATHER OF LOVE


Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“She is a rose, Jest. Lovely on the eyes, yes, but such thorns are not to be ignored.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.”
― Nema Al-Araby

“He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“There is no rose without a thorn.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Gods & Monsters

“Life is uncertain.
Today you get a rose.
Tomorrow you feel the thorns.
But the end result is red, always!!”
― Shillpi S Banerrji

“We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their thorns one-by-one and they do the same for us. Love is also when we pluck the thorns out of our own flesh, one-by-one. But today, the world teaches us that we shouldn’t even see those thorns, that we should only see the petals. As a result, we don’t know how to love ourselves and we don’t know how to love others. Stay with the darkness, and bring that darkness into the light. It’s there, look at it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never hold.”
― Terry a O'Neal

“If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.”
― John Everson, Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions

“I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.”
― sir kristian goldmund aumann, The Seven Deadly Sins

“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, Alphabet of Thorn

“Your love has only ever come with
thorns, and I have only ever spent
so much time with my nose buried in its petals
that I didn't notice my hand
dripping blood from holding on so tightly.

Your love has only ever
been on borrowed time.

You blamed me
for not putting it in water.

I blamed you
for giving me something already
dying.”
― Kristina Mahr

“A rose is a rose, even by another name. But we choose whether we will offer beauty to the world, or if we will use our thorns to sting. -Roman Nikolaevich Montagov”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Thorn box

Meaning: Girlhood
Bursaria spinosa | Eastern Australia

Small tree or shrub with furrowed dark grey bark. Smooth branches are armed with thorns. Leaves yield pine-like fragrance when bruised. Sweetly scented white flowers bloom in summer. Provides nectar to butterflies and safety to small birds. Intricate architecture of thorns is much sought after by spiders for constructing webs.”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“Thorns die from the inside out, like priests.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“For all the thorns I'd faced, at last I'd found the roses.”
― Elizabeth Lowham, Beauty Reborn

“In life,making wrong choices gives us experiences, making the right choices gives us confidence. Out of the choices, we either get crowns or thorns. People will get motivation from the crowns. The greatest life ministry comes from the thorns. People will find their healing in your wounds.”
― Njau Kihia

“Roses have thorns. Those are like flower fangs. Roses are the vampires of the plant world.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“The thorns don't shelter the rose against the storm.”
― Anje Kruger