Autumn Quotes

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
George Eliot
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. View quote
Robert Browning
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence. View quote
Thomas Hood
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. View quote
Truman Capote
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. View quote
Henry James
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. (Vitruvius)
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . . View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. View quote
Walter Scott
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. View quote
Claire Tomalin
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist. View quote
Joanne Harris
Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. View quote
Richard Widmark
It's like going back to school. You know, autumn Time for Harry Potter. View quote
Robbie Coltraine
It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. View quote
Yoko Ono
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime! (Thomas Hardy)
In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature. View quote
James Frazer
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. View quote
Hal Borland
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