Quotes

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.
-C.S. Lewis

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
-Faith Baldwin

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
-Stanley Horowitz

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
-William Allingham

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
-Sir Walter Scott

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
-John Cheever

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
-Langston Hughes

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
-Edwin Way Teale

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

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits
-Samuel Butler

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
-William Cullen Bryant

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
-Emily Bronte

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.
-Yoko Ono

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
-Hal Borland

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
-Chuang Tzu

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence.
-Thomas Hood

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
-Umberto Eco

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
-Wallace Stevens

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
-P.D. James

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
-Stanley Horowitz

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
-Elizabeth Lawrence

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.
-Robert Frost

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.
-Henry James

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
-Irish Proverb

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
-William Cullen Bryant

They travel with a constant companion, autumn.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
-William Shakespeare

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
-Robertson Davies

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
-Carol Bishop Hipps

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
-John Donne

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.
-E. E. Cummings

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

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels...
-Charles Dickens

The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.
-William Shakespeare

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
-Robert Browning

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
-Samuel Johnson

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-Albert Camus

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.
-George Eliot

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
-Nova Bair