White Flowers

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or flowers:

    Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
    Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 1:18.

    The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
    Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)