Autumn Afternoon Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.

Elizabeth Taylor

#3. Autumn afternoon:
a sycamore leaf
falls softly
and rests
on its own shadow

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. Maybe late afternoon is autumn; summer's retreat
not being archived, but suspended, as the feathered
vane of a bird wings its way across the avenue.

Michelle Cahill

#5. The river this November afternoon
Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:
A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud
Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#6. And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.

Cindee Snider Re

#7. In the rain-swept afternoon
my heart discovers
the tragedy of autumn
raining from the trees.

Martin Sorrell

#8. But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

C.S. Lewis