Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Autumn / Seasons - Quotes

A moral is attached to autumnal scenes: leaves falling like our years, flowers fading like our hours, clouds fleeting like our illusions, light diminishing like our intelligence, and the sun growing colder like our affections. - Chateaubriand

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be. - Henry Parry Liddon

Autumn ... painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. - Sharon Kay Penman

Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile. - William Cullen Bryant

Autumn is a bittersweet time, a reminder that in life there is death and in death life. - Marcia Bonta

Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Autumn is the final trick in nature's year-long magic show: It masks death with a spectacular display of beauty. - Keith Hansen

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

Fall has always been my favourite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. - Lauren Destefano

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 L. K. Jerome

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. - D. H. Lawrence

It’s autumn … and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then. - D. H. Lawrence

No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one Autumnal face. - John Donne

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. - Jane Hirshfield

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination. - Joe L. Wheeler

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