Autumn Quotes - Page 11

• While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

  Karel Capek

  Spring, Flower, Winter

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• I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Lying, Night, Air

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Silhouettes”, p.5, Read Books Ltd

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Blow, Wind

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• It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest

  John Muir

  Light, Rocks, Glowing

  John Muir (1902). “The Grand Canon of the Colorado”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Children, Sound, Rolling

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• There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.

  Wumen Huikai

  Summer, Spiritual, Spring

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• She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Home, And Love, Would Be

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• It was autumn and falling stars
  Covered the shrivelled forms
  Crouched in the moonlight.

  Wallace Stevens

  Stars, Fall, Moonlight

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.147, Vintage

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• Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

  Bette Midler

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Beautiful, Past, Light

  Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.313, Clarendon Press

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• Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Lovely, Pieces

  Song: All Too Well, Album: Red, 2012

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• Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sun, Sunlight, Breaths

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.343, e-artnow

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• I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

  Claire Tomalin

  School, College, Process

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• When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Wind, Lips

  Bash? Matsuo, Basho, Asataro Miyamori (2002). “Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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• In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Dream, Spring

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• I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Thinking, Doe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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• Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving, Decision

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.137, Random House

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• In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Sunset, Winter

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Spring

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• The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fields, Lips, Speak

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

  May Sarton

  Long, October, Melancholy

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Night, Bird

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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