Thorns Quotes
On the briars beneath every distant, fairy-tale view.
These quotes treat thorns as the price of getting close to anything: literature's fairy-land charm that fades on approach, a life thickly sown with hardship best passed through quickly, and politics likened to donning a crown of thorns. Read more in About quotes.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and...
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
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There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
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Whether describing landscapes, careers, or personal setbacks, these lines return again and again to thorns as an honest metaphor for struggle. Continue with Accept quotes for more on facing hardship.
