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Quotes About Violets

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
~ Unknown
He reached into the drawer of his desk, and pulled out my fan, white silk embroidered with violets. "This is yours, I suppose? I found it in the corridor." His mouth twisted wryly as he looked at me. "I see. I suppose, then, you will have some notion of how your appearance earlier this evening affected me." "I doubt it very much," I said.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~ Tennessee Williams
Death is woven in with the violets, " said Louis. "Death and again death.")
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Ann left him there, kneeling among the violets looking out into the fog as if that glimpse of the castle had somehow broken his heart.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Flowers need sunshine, violets need dew, all angels in heaven know I need you. Years may fly, tears may dry, but my friendship with you will never die.
~ Unknown
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
~ D H Lawrence
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
~ Oscar Levant
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley