#thorn

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#dagger #flesh #more #much #than

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#fair #not fair #only #people #petals

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#daughters #lily #love #thorns

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#thorn #warning #whole #wilderness #worth

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#opportunities #problems #them #thorns

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#facility #her #rejects #requires #rough

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#roses #sleeps #thorns

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 gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#came #couple #couple times #gave #i