Seasons Quotes

• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Change, Earth, Celebrate

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.’ Good grief, I should be a mental patient. (Cassandra) You have more strength than any warrior I have known. Don’t ever apologize to me again for those few times when you show your fear to me, Cassandra. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Song, Sorry, Fun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.297, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

  Bob Marley

  Purpose, Reason

  Song: Forever Loving Jah, Album: Uprising, 1980

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• Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.

  Gary Chapman

  Summer, Moving, Fall

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• A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Silence, Preparation

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Light, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2067, Delphi Classics

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• These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

  Annie Dillard

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.83, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
  road construction, you may live in Canada

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Winter, May, Canada

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• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Stars, Order, Feelings

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Fall, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the spring times, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Pain, Spring

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• With patience everything comes in due season.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Patience, Dues

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• Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

  Vera Nazarian

  Love Is, People, Use

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

  Robert Bolt

  Country, Sake, Chaos

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.13, A&C Black

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