„The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting“
— Charles Bukowski
„Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?“
— Emily Brontë
„Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.“
— Daisaku Ikeda
„Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.“
— Gertrude Stein
„There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„As every flower fades and as all youth“
— Hermann Hesse