White Flowers Quotes:

A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

- Rumi

topic: Flower, White, Tongue, White Flowers

The white flower of a blameless life.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) Dedication (1862) l. 24

topic: Life, Flower, White, White Flowers, Blameless

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Flower, Dark Clouds, Deep Dark

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

source: John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

topic: Flower, Passion, White, White Flowers, Falcon

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) Dedication (1862) l. 24

topic: Life, Flower, Light, White Flowers, Blameless

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Nature, Spring, Heart, March Poems, May Day

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

- William Golding

topic: Flower, White, Islands, Huts, White Flowers

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

- R. S. Thomas

source: R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”

topic: Flower, White, Soil, White Flowers

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

- John Keats

source: John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

topic: Flower, Sleep, Winter, Impermanence, Another Year

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Gratitude, Flower, Heart, Time Machine, White Flowers

The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

- Jonathan Edwards

source: Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

topic: Christian, Sweet, Spring, White Flowers

It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Queens, Flower, Healing, White Flowers, Eowyn

If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience. "Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well." "Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt." He looked down at his sleeve, embroidered with white flowers. "Not in your nightshirt, though.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Queens, Flower, White Flowers

Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

- Patricia Highsmith

source: Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.206, She Winked Press

topic: Flower, White, Water, White Flowers

The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.

- Janet Fitch

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Art, Decor, Thick