Autumn Quotes - Page 18

• My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Letting Go, Strong

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Mother, Moon

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• Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

  Saul Williams

  Book, Void, Forests

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

  Mitch Albom

  Morning, Memories, Eye

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

  Hal Borland

  Wind, Two, Sound

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• Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}

  Diana Gabaldon

  Cheer, Kissing, Opposites

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2395, Dell

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• He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

  Walter de La Mare

  Morning, Stars, Night

  Walter De la Mare (1933). “The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget”

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• Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

  Robert Browning

  Inspiring, Nature, Decrease

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.132, Wildside Press LLC

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• It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.

  Sarah Dunn

  New York, Blue, Sky

  Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

  Henry Abbey

  Giving, Gold, Decay

  Henry Abbey, “Autumn Ballad”

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• Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Firsts, Scales

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Dream, Children

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.120, Vintage

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• The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.

  Steve Sabol

  Fun, Wind, Laughing

  "Steve Sabol, Cinematic Force for N.F.L., Dies at 69" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. September 18, 2012.

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• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  Hal Borland

  Sea, Purple, Temptation

  Hal Borland (1965). “Countryman: A Summary of Belief”

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Lying, Sun, November

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Kyoto

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• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

  Robert Hass

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Fall, Light

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Summer, Dying

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• Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

  Rumi

  Fall, Water

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• Ere, in the northern gale,
  The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
  The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
  Have put their glory on.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Fall, Tree

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.

  Henry James

  Daughter, Fall, Flames

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.370, Library of America

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