Blooming Inspiration: A Collection of Beautiful Rose Quotes

"The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is."

- Paulo Coelho

"A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: ‘Aren’t you tired of waiting?’ ‘Yes,’ answers the rose, ‘but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.’"

- Paulo Coelho

"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is."

- J. B. Yeats

"A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes her so important."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses."

- Ana Claudia Antunes

"Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference."

- Andy Puddicombe

"Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"A single flower he sent me since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose, deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet one perfect rose."

- Dorothy Parker

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

- Katharine Lee Bates

"I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full."

- Charlotte Brontë

"This love is the rose that blooms forever."

- Rumi

"It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, for me it is my heart."

- Frederick Peterson

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, he said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

- Rumi

"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

"My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns."

- Bret Michaels

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."

- Kahlil Gibran

"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears."

- Isaac Hayes

"Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; for the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

"The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove."

- John Boyle O'Reilly

"A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is like the wild rose."

- Emily Brontë

"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

- Thomas Moore

"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."

- Rumi

"Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose."

- Bette Midler

"The rose is a flower without a why, it blooms because it blooms; it pays no attention to itself, does not ask whether anyone sees it."

- Angelus Silesius

"A rose does not lose its beautiful scent because it grew in dirt."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"When love came first to earth, the Spring spread rose beds to receive him."

- Thomas Campbell

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

- Mark Overby

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."

- Tom Wilson

"Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Of all flowers, me thinks a rose is best."

- William Shakespeare

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

- George Eliot

"The rose is fairest when it is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."

- Sir Walter Scott

"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

- Dale Carnegie

"Take time to smell the roses."

- Proverb

"The world is a rose, smell it, and pass it to your friends."

- Persian Proverb

"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses."

- Chinese Proverb

"If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime."

- Swedish Proverb

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."

- Chinese Proverb

"Life is like a rose; beautiful yet full of thorns."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true."

- Ray Evans

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

- William Carlos Williams

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

- Ovid

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

- Hada Bejar

"Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."

- Arthur Miller

"The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well."

- Stephen King

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."

- J.M. Barrie

"I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

- Emma Goldman

"This rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose."

- Alex Flinn

"Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either."

- German Proverb

"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."

- Therese of Lisieux

"Truths and roses have thorns about them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Come out here where the roses have opened. Let soul and world meet."

- Rumi

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."

- Edmund Spenser

"Roses fall, but the thorns remain."

- Dutch Proverb

"Love and a red rose can’t be hid."

- Thomas Holcroft

"The rose is a rose, and was always a rose. But now the theory goes that the apple’s a rose, and the pear is, and so’s the plum, I suppose. The dear only knows what will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose but were always a rose."

- Robert Frost

"A rose, isn’t quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you."

- Anthony Liccione

"I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses."

- James Joyce

"I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows."

- Rob Cella

"A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses."

- Anonymous

"There may be many flowers in one’s life…but only one rose."

- Anonymous

"A woman is like a rose…If you take good care of her, you will see love blossom."

- Anonymous

"Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it."

- Anonymous

"True friendship is like a rose, we don’t realize its beauty until it fades."

- Anonymous

"Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade before they can bloom again."

- Unknown