Quotes About Flowers

Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

It was lovely wine, soft and full of flowers.

As long as I love books and flowers and travel—and my friends—and good food, as I do now, I want no allowances made for me!

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers; he must also hate weeds

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

Now for the first time he was far from shore, submerged among deep waters, below wind and tide, where huge trees raised their spongy flowers and monstrous things without fur or feather, wing or foot, passed silently, in submarine twilight. A lush place.

The way he looked at Julia made her feel attractive. For half an hour, as their sentences floated pleasantly among the scent of violets and snowdrops, forget-me-nots and pansies, her interest in him grew.

A full moon drenched the road to the lustreless color of platinum, and late-blooming harvest flowers breathed into the motionless air aromas that were like low, half-heard laughter.

hana no kage / aka no tanin wa / nakari keri Under cherry-flowers, None are utter strangers.

the pleasant scent of

red geraniums. Jack led the way to

But my sadness is comforting Because it's right and natural And because it's what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

I seek and don't find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

O multicoloured hours!… Moments like flowers, minutes like trees, O time frozen in space, time dead from space and covered by flowers, by the fragrance of flowers, and by the fragrance of the names of flowers!…

Grande é a poesia, a bondade e as danças… Mas o melhor do mundo são as crianças, Flores, música, o luar, e o sol, que peca Só quando, em vez de criar, seca.

I prefer a defeat that knows the beauty of flowers to a victory in the desert, full of blindness in the soul, alone with its isolated nothingness.

I prefer to fail having known the beauty of flowers than to triumph in a wilderness, for triumph is the blindness of the soul left alone with its own worthlessness.

Grande é a poesia, a bondade e as danças...  Mas o melhor do mundo são as crianças,  Flores, música, o luar, e o sol que peca  Só quando, em vez de criar, seca. 

L'INNOCENZA PERDUTA Avevo un campo pieno di speranza ma nel delirio della febbre lo devastai, e allora lo seminai di amori e vi nacquero fiori di delusione.

Maestro, son plácidas todas las horas que malgastamos, si al malgastarlas, cual en un jarrón, ponemos flores.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.