A Fallen Leaf Quotes

#1. It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

J.M. Barrie

#2. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

Connie May Fowler

#3. Even a fallen leaf can shelter a bug from the storm.

Holland Meissner

#4. As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny.

Peggy Toney Horton

#5. Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see.

Mark Nepo

#6. I wish I could stuff my mouth full of raindrops and fill my pockets full of snow. I wish I could trace the veins in a fallen leaf and the feel the wind pinch my nose.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, like the flowers that falleth on the grass, like the wine that is poured out and soaks into the earth.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#8. O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Edgar Lee Masters

#9. October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

Hal Borland

#10. The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates

Matthew Quick

#11. Only when the last leaf has fallen, the last tree has died, and the last fish been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.

E.L. James

#12. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.

D.J. Niko

#13. I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.
Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.
It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past.

Toba Beta

#14. Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.

A.E. Housman