Vases Quotes

• Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

  Ingrid Trobisch

  Rose, Mosaics, Tables

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• Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Trust, Broken, Never Trust

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• Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

  Laozi

  Clay, Emptiness, Used

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• Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

  Derek Walcott

  Strong Love, Stronger, Broken Pieces

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan

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• A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Flower, Thinking, May

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• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Smile, Flower, Laughing

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

  Thomas Moore

  Rose, May, Scent

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'

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• Flowers are an education in a vase.

  Robert Genn

  Flower

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• I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

  Pablo Neruda

  Flower, Spurs, Plates

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• The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

  Anne Lamott

  Flower, Ordinary, World

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Penguin

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• Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

  Guy Finley

  Flower, Cutting, Order

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• Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.

  Guity Novin

  Space

  Setareh Cinema, Volume 4, 1973.

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• No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Coffins

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• It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

  Horace

  Pot

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• Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Broken, Violence, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.4

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• A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble or expense involved is honestly repaid in real decorative effect. If you find cut flowers too extravagant, stick to the greens. Laurel, rhododendron leaves, huckleberry or pine will all last many days, even weeks.

  Dorothy Draper

  Real, Flower, Cutting

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• An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sound, Climate, Scent

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.289, Modern Library

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• But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

  Mary Renault

  Perfect, Owners, Polished

  "The Persian Boy". Book by Mary Renault, p. 29, 1972.

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• I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

  Juliette Binoche

  Flower, Thinking, Order

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• You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

  Elliot Perlman

  Sleep, Water, Wake Up

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• There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Change, Beautiful, Laughter

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• If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

  John Green

  Flower, Rooms, Living Room

  "The Fault In Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, archive.org. 2012.

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• You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

  Christine McVie

  Chuck

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• A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

  Vera Nazarian

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Glasses

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• I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

  Faith Baldwin

  Gratitude, Children, Grateful

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