Seasons Quotes - Page 16

• Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

  Tom Robbins

  Hard Times, Joy, Soul

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• We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Party, Funeral

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “The Center of Winter: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Being a King sort of sucks," I said. Quentin wrinkled his nose, "So does your outfit." "Blood is in this season.

  Mira Grant

  Kings, Blood, Doe

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• You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Springtime, Curious, Easier

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.102, GENERAL PRESS

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• All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Flower, Sleep, Dark

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hands, Trying, Kind

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

  Joni Mitchell

  Time, Games, Circles

  Song: The Circle Game

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• Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.

  Homer

  Spring, Winter, Blow

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• Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

  Jim Morrison

  Eye, Circles, Bird

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• Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

  Rick Warren

  Struggle, Years, Mushrooms

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving

  Karen Kingsbury

  Life Changing, People, Leaving

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• That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

  Anita Brookner

  Light, Sun, Grey

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Wise, Sweet

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.19, Penguin

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• So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.

  Ray Bradbury

  Animal, Laughing, Choices

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Healing, Woods

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

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• I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

  Eloisa James

  Christmas, Indulge In, Addiction

  "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.

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• Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hunting, Car, Majestic

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• Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Forever, Generations

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.66, Zondervan

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• I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season

  Haruki Murakami

  Missing, Holes, Seasons Change

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Children, Men, People

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• Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Time, Fall, Apples

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

  Norm MacDonald

  Time, Men, Giving

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