Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 65; epigram)
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 65; epigram)
“And so it fell upon a day,
(That is, it never rose again)”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Lays of Sorrow No.1
The Rectory Umbrella
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) British bishop
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 1.
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Bk. III, Ch. 1
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1649/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form...
Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
“She was like a great rose that opens its heart to the whole world.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Context: The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile. She loved the sky, the light, which the unformed little being would love some day. She loved the chilly dawn, the sultry noontime, the dreamy evening. The child would grow up, a saviour, to give life to everything again. Starting at the dark bottom he would ascend the ladder and begin life over again, life, the only paradise there is, the bouquet of nature. He would make beauty beautiful. He would make eternity over again with his voice and his song. And clasping the new-born infant close, she looked at all the sunlight she had given the world. Her arms quivered like wings. She dreamed in words of fondling. She fascinated all the passersby that looked at her. And the setting sun bathed her neck and head in a rosy reflection. She was like a great rose that opens its heart to the whole world.
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Words
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know.
When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant.
Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?"
All of them indicated that they knew.
Then he said, "put it into words."
All of them were silent.
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Part 4: Betwixt Bewilderment and Understanding
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Context: I have one thing against medical technology. You see, the very desire to understand the human being is to control him — that is why I am not quite in sympathy. The day you control the endocrine glands, you will change the personality of man; you won't need any brainwashing. Brainwashing is a very elaborate process. If nature had been allowed to go on in its own way, everybody would have become a unique flower. Why should there be only roses in this world? What for? A grass flower or a dandelion flower has as much beauty, as much importance in the scheme of things. Why should there be only jasmine flowers, roses, or some other flower? So, the possibility is there of a change taking place which is sudden, not progressive. It has to happen in a very sudden and explosive way to break the whole thing.
“Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.”
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
"The Dust" <!-- p. 23 -->
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Context: Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.
“Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1736/ <br class="br">The Rose (1893) <br class="br">Context: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!<br>Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:<br>Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;<br>The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,<br>Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold;
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen
Context: Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden — you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha. There is no contradiction … I say unto you, your every act should be a ceremony. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion: life itself will be the religion.
“Come near, come near, come near — Ah, leave me still
A little space for the rose-breath to fill!”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
The Rose (1893)
Context: Come near, come near, come near — Ah, leave me still
A little space for the rose-breath to fill!
Lest I no more hear common things that crave;
The weak worm hiding down in its small cave,
The field-mouse running by me in the grass,
And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass;
But seek alone to hear the strange things said
By God to the bright hearts of those long dead,
And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know.
Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2
Context: At the age of thirty, or thereabouts, this young Nobleman had not only had every experience that life has to offer, but had seen the worthlessness of them all. Love and ambition, women and poets were all equally vain. Literature was a farce. The night after reading Greene's Visit to a Nobleman in the Country, he burnt in a great conflagration fifty-seven poetical works, only retaining 'The Oak Tree', which was his boyish dream and very short. Two things alone remained to him in which he now put any trust: dogs and nature; an elk-hound and a rose bush. The world, in all its variety, life in all its complexity, had shrunk to that. Dogs and a bush were the whole of it.
C.G. Jung book Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 110
Context: My example concerns a young woman patient who, in spite of efforts made on both sides, proved to be psychologically inaccessible. The difficulty lay in the fact that she always knew better about everything. Her excellent education had provided her with a weapon ideally suited to this purpose, namely a highly polished Cartesian rationalism with an impeccably "geometrical" idea of reality. After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism with a somewhat more human understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself. Well, I was sitting opposite of her one day, with my back to the window, listening to her flow of rhetoric. She had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab-a costly piece of jewellery. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window and immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabaeid beetle, or common rose-chafer, whose gold-green color most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed the beetle to my patient with the words "Here is your scarab." This broke the ice of her intellectual resistance. The treatment could now be continued with satisfactory results.
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
The Rose (1893)
Context: Come near, come near, come near — Ah, leave me still
A little space for the rose-breath to fill!
Lest I no more hear common things that crave;
The weak worm hiding down in its small cave,
The field-mouse running by me in the grass,
And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass;
But seek alone to hear the strange things said
By God to the bright hearts of those long dead,
And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know.
Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Canadian writer and mystic
The Secret Teachings of All Ages p.306 https://ia800809.us.archive.org/15/items/Thesecretteachingsofallages2/The%20Secret%20Teachings%20Of%20All%20Ages%20-%20Manly%20P.%20Hall.pdf <br class="br">The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Alphonse Karr (1808–1890) French critic, journalist, and novelist
"Letters written from my garden", 1853
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince
Source: The Little Prince, Chapter 21
“I would blossom if I were a rose.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Source: The Lamp and the Bell
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution (2 January 1961) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1961/esp/f020161e.html
“You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Source: You Come Too
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“A rose trapped inside a fist.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: The Portable Henry Rollins
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets
Variant: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Source: Four Quartets
Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity
Source: Code Name Verity
James Cameron (1954) Canadian film director
Rose
Titanic (1997)
Context: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.
“every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
“Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Source: Ruskin Bond's Book Of Nature
“i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Melody Beattie (1948) American writer
Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941), p. 4
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose
Source: The Name of the Rose
Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound
Variant: While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.
Source: Spirit Bound
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Variant: I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
Source: The Song of Achilles