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I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom. -- Suzanne Collins
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. -- Edward George, Baron George
The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses. -- Devon Monk
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. -- Rabindranath Tagore
If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today -- Joyce Chapman
The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt. -- Robert Frost
How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to atone for a neglected past by flowers and tears at the funeral! -- Orison Swett Marden
What long-dead face makes here the grass so green?On what earth-buried bosom do we lean?Ah! love, when we in turn are grass and flowers,By what kind eyes to come shall we be seen? -- Richard Le Gallienne
Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think- the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered? -- Ray Bradbury
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake. -- Elizabeth Goudge
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. -- J. D. Salinger
Christ.No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel's sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery. -- Stephen King
Yes, tell us, Ari. Tell us what you have seen."Athena.Dead flowers and flashing emerald beads threaded through her tangled, upswept hair. A hard swallow went down down my throat, followed by a tightening of every muscle I possessed. All the emotions of my vision boiled over, as fresh and furious as they'd been a few moments ago"You should know, you petty piece of shit. -- Kelly Keaton
You said Isthere anything whichis dead or alive more beautifulthan my body,to have in your fingers(trembling ever so little)?Looking intoyour eyes Nothing,i said,except theair of spring smelling of never and forever.....and through the lattice which moved asif a hand is touched by ahand(whichmoved as thoughfingers touch a girl'sbreast,lightly)Do you believe in always,the windsaid to the rainI am too busy withmy flowers to believe,the rain answered -- e. e. cummings
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. -- J. D. Salinger
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. -- Brian Clough
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. -- Anne Frank
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead. -- Cassandra Clare
Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead. -- Joan Crawford
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. -- Oscar Wilde
The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. -- James Russell Lowell
I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley. -- Francesca Lia Block
Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers. -- Sean Covey

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