Leaf Falling Quotes

#1. One rose leaf, falling from an enormous height, like a little parachute dropped from an invisible balloon, turns, flutters waveringly.

Virginia Woolf

#2. We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Kim Elizabeth

#3. I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.

Gemma Malley

#4. She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey.

Anthony Doerr

#5. I felt like a leaf falling from a tree and he was the wind whispering, I've got you.

Jewel E. Ann

#6. Most people ... are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

Hermann Hesse

#7. I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.

Christina Rossetti

#8. What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks.
"Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it burns itself up in the atmosphere. Why should I?

Roger Zelazny

#10. In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.

Amit Ray

#11. The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. A dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight. Isn't it strange? Gloom and decay - like brightness and life.

Ivan Turgenev

#13. Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Beth Kephart

#14. Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch? ...
One happy day for every falling leaf you catch -sam

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaf, which is blown and is turning around through the air, and wavers, and tumbles to the ground. But others, a few, are like stars, they go on a fixed course, no wind reaches them, in themselves they have their law and their course

Hermann Hesse

#17. A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I, he thought, to interfere with or dispute even such a simple thing as the falling of a leaf. He

Clifford D. Simak

#18. Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

Jack Kerouac

#19. October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

Jean Hersey

#20. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Osamu Dazai

#21. How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#22. This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

Colin Meloy

#23. Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

Sappho

#24. A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.

R.H. Blyth

#25. What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.

Herman Melville

#26. All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning
not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.

Michel Foucault

#27. The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

Rumi

#28. When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?

Sheniz Janmohamed

#29. Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?

Daniel J. Rice

#30. The falling leaf doesn't hate the wind.

Tere Liye

#31. One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

David Ignatow

#32. If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.

Addie Zierman

#33. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev