Quotes About Withered Leaves

#1. Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#2. Say, doth she weep for very wantonness?
Or is it that she dimly doth foresee
Across her youth the joys grow less and less
The burden of the days that are to be:
Autumn and withered leaves and vanity,
And winter bringing end in barrenness."
-from "My Lady April

Ernest Dowson

#3. The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Laurence Sterne

#4. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

Andre Gide

#6. We're the only ones left from those withered days. The last two leaves still clinging to the branch waiting to fall. Waiting for the wind to severe us into the sky.

Tan Twan Eng

#7. Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Francois Fenelon

#8. Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.

Nikki Rowe

#9. The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Jim Hightower

#10. The stretching, yearning stalks hiss against the boat's bottom, making a white noise that sounds like pollen coming out of a piss-blizzard.

Chuck Wendig

#11. The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

A.A. Milne

#12. So many leaves have fallen on my life. Some settled nicely to rest, but most fell, withered to bitter cold and drifted on. But, after all that, I would brave all the coldness of humanity again for the sight of a few more beautiful yellow leaves falling on Aspen, and the birds....

E.S. Lehman

#13. Clearly, this is at bottom the same ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator.

Walter Benjamin

#14. Life is like a fondue: the best fruit ain't the best till it's been through some goo.

Jack Bunbury

#15. I aspire only to silence.

Felix Feneon

#16. O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

George Arnold

#17. Love gives up the right to get even.

Christine Caine

#18. Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears.

Emily Murdoch

#19. The summer had turned, the summer had gone; the autumn had dropped upon Bly and had blown out half our lights. The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance
all strewn with crumpled playbills.

Henry James

#20. Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Kenneth Clark

#21. Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal in the world today. I think that's the real horror of modern life.

James Greer

#22. My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash.

Hilary Mantel

#23. To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices.

Steven Magee

#24. Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.

Terry Brooks