Autumn Quotes - Page 25

• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

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• He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sweet, Brother, Flower

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.7755, Delphi Classics

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• Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.

  Ali Smith

  Summer, Sunday, Clouds

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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Air, Flames

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Sky, Lakes

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• Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, School, Fire

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Beautiful, Summer

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• Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Spring, Sadness

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• A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lonely, Wind, Unity

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• Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Bird, Dying

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• Autumn is no time to lie alone

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Lying

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “Tale of Genji”, p.207, Tuttle Publishing

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• I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Dying, Looks

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• In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already here! In autumn, play with the leaves, in spring, play with the flowers! In summer, don't wait for the winter; in winter, don't wait for the summer! Everything is already here, in this present time you live in!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, September, Colour

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• Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Goodbye, Forever, Lasts

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• Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

  Robert Browning

  Running, Morning, Feet

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.207

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• I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

  Tove Jansson

  Beautiful, Summer, August

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• The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Sweet, Party

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.408, Xist Publishing

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• When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

  Edward Young

  Fall, Men, Yellow

  Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works”, p.263

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• Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Leafs, Knows

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• The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Kissing, Water

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• It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Running, Morning, Blue

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.159, e-artnow

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• There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Two, Giving, Singing

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.544, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

  Thomas Moore

  Spring, Rubies, Vineyards

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• The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fall, August, Yellow

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