30 Inspirational Rose Quotes

Roses  are an integral part of many occasions and events in our lives, sometimes without us even noticing. Weddings, funerals, baby showers, birthdays, anniversaries are only a few of life’s big moments that flowers are incorporated into. Beyond their appearance in our lives, there are many songs and quotes about roses that are extremely inspiring and touching. 

30 Beautiful Inspirational Quotes 

They are the most well known and popular flower known all around the world. The perfect representation of love and romance. It is seen within many literature pieces, movies, art pieces and music. Below is a compilation of some of the most historic, popular and inspirational quotes about roses. Read and find some new, inspirational and motivational rosy quotes that can uplift your day.

1. “Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.” – Bette Midler,The Rose

2. “That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, he 

          said to my hear, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.” – Rumi

3. “The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, for me it is my heart.” – Frederick Peterson,The Sweetest Flower That Blows
   
   
4. “Love is like the wild rose.” – Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

5. “Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.” – Arthur Miller
   
   
6. “Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; for the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down.” – Rumi,The Masnavi
   
   
7. “I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full.” – Charlotte Brontë,Jane Eyre
   
   
8. “The rose is a rose, and was always a rose. But now the theory goes that the apple’s a rose, and the pear is, and so’s the plum, I suppose. The dear only knows what will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose but were always a rose.” – Robert Frost,The Rose Family
   
   
9. “The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.” – Stephen King,The Wolves of the Calla
   
   
10. “Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    
    
11. “God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.” – J.M. Barrie
    
    
12. “Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.” – Alex Flinn
    
    
13. “A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.” – William Carlos Williams,The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams
    
    
14. “Of all flowers, me thinks a rose is best.” – William Shakespeare,The Two Noble Kinsmen
    
    
15. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” – Katharine Lee Bates
    
    
16. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint–Exupéry,The Little Prince
    
    
17. “A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
    
    
18. “Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton,A Night in Italy
    
    
19. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” – Therese of Lisieux
    
    
20. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Alphonse Karr,Lettres Écrites De Mon Jardin
    
    
21. “We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
    
    
22. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare,Romeo and Juliet
    
    
23. “There is simply the rose; it is perfect every moment of its existence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
    
    
24. “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” – Emma Goldman
    
    
25. “Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.” – Edmund Spenser,The Faerie Queene
    
    
26. “A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
    
    
27. “This rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    
    
28. “I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses.” – James Joyce,Ulysses
    
    
29. “I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.“ – F. Scott Fitzgerald,This Side of Paradise
    
    
30. “Come out here where the roses have opened. Let soul and world meet.” – Rumi