Leafs Quotes - Page 4

• I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Beach, Water, Cry

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• But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

  Dave Eggers

  Baby, Clothes, Swim

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.367, Pan Macmillan

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• In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Hands, Religion

  Song: Every Grain of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981

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• (Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Morning, Flower, Fall

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• you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Art, Feelings, Disappear

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Long, Rose

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.

  Chelsea Handler

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Weed, Morning

  John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.34, Penguin

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• I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "You Are All Diseased". Book by George Carlin, 1999.

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• The spring is fresh and fearless
  And every leaf is new,
  The world is brimmed with moonlight,
  The lilac brimmed with dew.
  
  Here in the moving shadows
  I catch my breath and sing -
  My heart is fresh and fearless
  And over-brimmed with spring.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Moving, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fall, Heart, Sky

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more”, p.89, e-artnow

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• Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

  A. E. Housman

  Grief, Land, Giving

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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• Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heaven Sent, Feelings, Storm

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• Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Animal, Light

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• Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Stars, Fall

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

  David Clement-Davies

  Children, Hate, Fate

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• That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

  Maya Angelou

  Spring, Sea, Rocks

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• A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Long, Tea

  Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.39, Library of America

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• All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.

  Jens Jensen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Time

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• Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fall, Happy Day, Knows

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• Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

  Rob Thurman

  Fall, Hands, Wind

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• Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Kissing, Fire

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• I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

  Dan Wells

  Giants, Sitting, Miles

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Men, Doe

  "The Innocence of Father Brown". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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