Tulip Quotes

“I wonder what Matthias would have to say about that outfit.”
“He wouldn’t approve.”
“He doesn’t approve of anything about you. But when you laugh, he perks up like a tulip in fresh water.”
Nina snorted. “Matthias the tulip.”
“The big, brooding, yellow tulip.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.”
― Marianne Williamson

“I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up.”
― Fiona Apple

“She's like a tulip that's still gorgeous even though she just can't open up.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“You can and you can't — You shall and you shan't — You will and you won't — And you will be damned if you do — And you will be damned if you don't.”
― Lorenzo Dow

“I had abandoned everything
frivolously
doing this that and nothing
until you broke through
with your perfume of promise
saying 'Give me your chaos'
undressing my soul
with your ferocious beauty
and tulip-soft skin
making me uncivilised
making me overcome myself
You drink the darkness
within darkness
and are not ruined by it
This intoxicating uncertainty
forces me to delay ‘forever’
—your body is now my home”
― Kamand Kojouri

“A scholarly acquaintance in Samarkand had sent my colleague the finest and rarest tulips, as perfectly fresh as though they had just been cut from the stem. He was principally concerned with the microscopic study of their internal organs, especially of the pollen. He therefore dissected a beautiful lilac and yellow tulip, and discovered inside the calyx a tiny grain of alien matter which caught his attention in a singular fashion. How great was his astonishment when, on applying the magnifying glass, he clearly perceived that the tiny grain was none other than Princess Gamaheh, who was reposing on the pollen of the tulip's calyx and seemed to be sleeping calmly and peacefully.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“As one can hardly find any thing in a house where nothing keeps its place, but all is cast on a heap together; so it is in the heart where all things are in disorder, especially when darkness is added to this disorder: so that the hear t is like an obscure cave or dungeon, where there is but a little crevice of light, and a man must rather grope than see No wonder if men mistake in searching such a heat, sand so miscarry in judging of their estate (304).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“there she was, standing out, wildly regal, so eminent from all the others, rising above the crown of royalty...so much more colorful, more luscious, more luminous...so much more beautiful than anything else he had ever seen, all he could do was smile and cry...”
― Bodhi Smith

“From behind his back, he pulled out a single tulip, my favorite flower--- pure white, with the very tip of each petal tinged red. I had never seen a tulip like that, and it nearly took my breath away.”
― Sarah Jio, The Violets of March

“You seem so calm, like the sea before a storm. But then a memory crosses your mind—a friendly gesture from someone sitting in a café long ago, a yellow tulip you once tucked into her hair, or an old slip of paper with her phone number—and everything falls apart.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja