Alan Lightman Quotes, Life Quotes, Autumn Quotes

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

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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.

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Autumn Quotes , Light Quotes

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Fall Quotes , Autumn Quotes

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fall Quotes , Autumn Quotes

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Winter Quotes , Autumn Quotes

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fall Quotes , Autumn Quotes

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Summer Quotes , Autumn Quotes

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Autumn Quotes

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Autumn Quotes , Wind Quotes

In heaven it is always autumn.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Autumn Quotes

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Autumn Quotes , Giving Quotes

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Book Quotes , Autumn Quotes

The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Dream Quotes , Autumn Quotes

Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Fall Quotes , Autumn Quotes

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sports Quotes , Autumn Quotes