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Quotes About Thorns

Never pluck flowers if you love them, for a thorn loves them more than you do.
~ Unknown
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
~ Robert Hunter
I was a writer. A child who believed in fairy tales. Not the silly Disney ones your mother read to you, but the ones with blood and thorns, with girls who knew that love could kill you just as often as it could set you free.
~ Jodi Picoult
A child who believed in fairy tales. Not the silly Disney ones your mother read to you, but the ones with blood and thorns, with girls who knew that love could kill you just as often as it could set you free.
~ Jodi Picoult
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. –
~ John Bunyan
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
~ Unknown
Friends are like roses...you have to look out for the pricks!
~ Unknown
Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
~ J.C. Ryle
Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.
~ Lynda La Plante
They say time heals—and I think this can be true—but only if that's truly the goal here: healing. Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Even if love is full of thorns, I'd still embrace it for I know that in between those thorns, there is a rose that's worth all the pain
~ Unknown
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
~ George Santayana
Life is like a rose garden - Watch for the thorns and keep the pest dust handy.
~ Unknown
Life is a rose; beware of the thorns.
~ Unknown
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~ Unknown
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense
~ Unknown
Hay una acacia, ya sé que solo da espinas y sombras cortantes, pero está viva, tendrás algo vivo a tu lado. Te dará de beber su savia, te escaparás a través de sus raíces y florecerás desplegándote hacia el cielo.
~ Mathias Malzieu
One who loves roses cannot avoid thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Entering the Hedge is dangerous for anyone, but especially for changelings, who risk enslavement once again whenever they brave the Thorns.
~ Unknown
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Blushing, she took it from him. She dared not put her nose to it; like everything that Tony had ever given her, this gift had thorns.
~ Nalo Hopkinson