„Come near; I would, before my time to go,Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:“
— W.B. Yeats
„These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„In this universe there might grow roses which sing.“
— Stephen King
„It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.“
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
„The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.“
— Paulo Coelho
„I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.“
— Osamu Dazai