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Quotes About Autumn

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Large orange tom the color of autumn leaves, with amber eyes and big white paws. Strong, courageous, and determined.
~ Erin Hunter
It tasted as beer had always tasted the few times she'd drunk it, like brown autumn leaves.
~ Graham Swift
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
~ Adam Gopnik
It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I started school in the autumn term of 1949 when there was a tomato glut. We had tomatoes in every form known to God, man or beast - and they were all equally detestable. When you pushed them with your fork, a warmish liquid spurted forth. It was rather like sort of bursting a boil.
~ David Starkey
I'm sort of loving the feminine skirts and the cozy tops, especially when it's starting to get a little chilly out.
~ Lydia Hearst
Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each autumn, and falls, spinning down the river. Winter's long sleep begins, and with each spring the tree wales knowing mercifully less than it did the year before.
~ Sean Stewart
Beginnings of youth to the growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
Miri woke to the sleepy bleating of a goat. The world was as dark as eyes closed, but perhaps the goats could smell dawn seeping through the cracks in the house's stone walls. Though still half-asleep, she was aware of the late autumn chill hovering just outside her blanket, and she wanted to curl up tighter and sleep like a bear through frost and night and day.
~ Shannon Hale
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
And She dances and spins toward darkness all dressed in autumn fire To descend to the time of shadow, and rest from the world's desire…
~ Shekhinah Mountainwater
Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.
~ Francis Turner Palgrave
I try to remember when time's measure painfully chafes, for instance when autumn flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing to stay - how everything lives, shifting from one bright vision to another, forever in these momentary pastures.
~ Mary Oliver
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
~ Matsuo Basho
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.
~ Maureen Johnson
Pumpkins were the watermelons of fall.
~ Maureen Johnson
Now that the weather had turned more chill, he could cheerfully—or what passed as cheerfully in Nate-adjusted terms—pile on oversized sweaters and baggy cords and scarves until he was a moving pile of natural and synthetic fibers.
~ Maureen Johnson
reserved spot near the door to the Medical Arts building when he saw Annie dash down the steps. Her hair was loose, a long tangle of waves and curls that glinted gold and red in the fierce autumn sunshine. The look on her face – Jesus, he could live to be two hundred and never forget the look on her face as she darted past him. She glowed from within. There was no other way to say it. She had always been beautiful to him but
~ Barbara Bretton
Autumn darkness had already blinded the dining room windows, an effect that dispirited him, no matter how many autumns he lived or how predictably the light receded.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
~ Basho Matsuo