“The flowers you gave me are rotting
And still I refuse to throw them away”
The Flowers
Soviet Kitsch (2004)
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
Quote in Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors (2007) by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30
after 1930

“One who is blind throws away even a garland of flower placed on his head, thinking it is a snake.”
Abhijñānaśākuntalam (The Sign of Shakuntala)
Wendy Wasserstein (1991) The Heidi chronicles and other plays, p. 60

“I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.”
"Shine, Perishing Republic" (1939)

“Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.”
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)