Falling Leaves Quotes

• In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.

  Amit Ray

  Pain, Fall, Way

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• The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

  Rumi

  Fall, Blessing, Tree

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• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

  John Burroughs

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Autumn, Hair

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.67, tredition

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• Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

  Emily Bronte

  Fall, Autumn, Tree

  Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

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• The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Wisdom, Spring

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4656, Library of Alexandria

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• There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

  Brian Andreas

  Self Esteem, Fall, Taken

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Stars, Fall

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

  Neil Young

  Fall, Water, Poetry

  Neil Young (2014). “Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars”, p.119, Penguin

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• Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Autumn

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.43, SCB Distributors

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• How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Wind, Life And Death

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.484

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Butterfly

  'No!'

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• The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

  Johnny Mercer

  Summer, Song, Fall

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• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

  Lucille Clifton

  Letting Go, Believe, Fall

  Lucille Clifton (1974). “An ordinary woman”

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  Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

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• Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fall, Happy Day, Leafs

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• Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

  William H. Gass

  Beautiful, Fall, Found

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• How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Life, Fall, Leafs

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Autumn, Apples, Coal

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.137

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• The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

  Henry Beston

  Summer, Country, Fall

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• Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fall, Sad And Happy, Heaven

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