Famous quotes containing the words white and/or flowers:
“Retreat was out of hope,
Behind, a sealed route,
Eternitys white flag before,
And God at every gate.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“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 (18501917)