Fallen Leaves Quotes

• Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

  Cyril Connolly

  Lying, Autumn, Sun

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• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

  Hal Borland

  Sight, New Horizons, October

  Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

  Hal Borland

  New Horizons, October, Leafs

  Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Song

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• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

  John Burroughs

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• For the time being
  Words scatter
  Are they fallen leaves?

  Ruth Ozeki

  Fallen

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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• As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Adversity, Men, Broken

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• The autumn air is clear,
  The autumn moon is bright.
  Fallen leaves gather and scatter,
  The jackdaw perches and starts anew.
  We think of each other- when will we meet?
  This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.

  Li Bai

  Autumn, Moon, Night

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• O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Nature, Sleep, Rocks

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

  Eric Sloane

  Fall, Autumn, Lakes

  Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets
  And the music of fresh fallen leaves
  Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

  Scott Hastie

  Summer, Dust, Hot

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• The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

  John Updike

  Fall, Autumn, Grieving

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't." A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Valentine, Pet

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
  O flakes of snow,
  For which, through naked trees, the winds
  A-mourning go?

  John B. Tabb

  Winter, Wind, Snow

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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  Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

  Johnny Mercer

  Summer, Song, Fall

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• You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

  Wilhelm II

  Military, Home, Tree

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love.

  Gunter Grass

  Heart, Moon, Men

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• Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson—sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love—the broken fragments, the fallen leaves—and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out—she’s driving down your street.

  Barbara Hamby

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

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• What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.

  Paul Harding

  Ocean, Autumn, Men

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