Quotes of: Autumn Keyword

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!

Mehmet Murat ildan

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

The Autumn of the Patriarch

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

I'm thinking that it will be autumn soon," she said, lifting her gaze to his. "Autumn is my absolute favorite season. Spring is overrated. It's soggy and the trees are still bare from winter. Winter drags on and on, and summer is nice, but it's all t...

Paradise

our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for...

Steve Sabol

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be bo...

The Autumn of the Patriarch

I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter’s supple breasts—to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only A...

Rooftop Soliloquy

there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.

An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

The leaves drifted silently to the ground in the crisp autumn air. I inhaled deeply, the smell of burning bonfires far, far away enchanting my nostrils. Autumn had come early this year and I was excited for the change in colors that had already begun...

A Blue One

If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of ...

An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

Autumn is a cunning muse who steals by degrees my warmth and light. So distracted by her glorious painting of colors, I scarcely realize my losses until the last fiery leaf has fallen to the ground and the final pumpkin shrinks. Autumn departs with a...

Richelle E. Goodrich

AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. Let misty autumn be our part! The twilight of the year is sweet: Where sh...

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

Autumn is my favorite season.

Johnny Kelly

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

The City in the Autumn Stars: Being a Continuation of the Story of the Von Bek Family and Its Association with Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and the Cure for the World's Pain