Quotes about seasons
Plato -
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Michelle Franklin -
I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.
Kellie Elmore -
Winter is much like unrequited love cold and merciless.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Embrace the gift of autumn where every flower radiates its splendor.
David Benioff -
We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don't want to know - because why ruin a story?
Elizabeth Cohen - The Hypothetical Girl
Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.
Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.
Anne Bradstreet - The Works of Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel
Phar West Nagle -
Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.
Rosalind Lauer - A Simple Autumn
Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.
Soul Dancer - Pay Me What I'm Worth
Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
When leaves begin to sprout, we know spring season is here.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Every flower displays its beautiful colours in autumn.
Charlotte Eriksson - You're Doing Just Fine
Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.
Shon Hyneman Love And Football How to play on the same team with your spouse -
No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins
Anna White - and Leaps of Faith
I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.
A.E. Housman - A Shropshire Lad
In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed for the son she bore;And standing hills, long to remain,Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.And bound for the same bourn as I,On every road I wandered by,Trod beside me, close and dear,The beautiful and death-struck year:Whether in the woodland brownI heard the beechnut rustle down,And saw the purple crocus paleFlower about the autumn dale;Or littering far the fields of MayLady-smocks a-bleachi
Debasish Mridha -
To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!
Darnell Lamont Walker -
Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
Ge Fei - Flock of Brown Birds
Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in an area known as the 'Waterside', writing a book akin to the Revelations of St. John.
Francine Rivers - A Voice in the Wind
But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word everyday. From creation forth, the whole world is witness to God's plan revealed through his Son. From the beginning, he prepared us. In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see.
Soraya Diase Coffelt - It's Not about You Mr. Santa Claus: A Love Letter about the True Meaning of Christmas
[It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus,] is a fun read and a twist on Christmas, because it does involve Santa Claus and Jesus, and it doesn’t say that Santa Claus is bad, but it’s the child explaining to Santa Claus the true reason for the season is Jesus.
Confucius -
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.
C.J. Carlyon - The Cherry House
The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.
Sylvia Plath -
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
James Baldwin -
The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended. The noises in the street began to change, diminish, voices became fewer, the music sparse. Daily, blocks and blocks of children were spirited away. Grownups retreated from the streets, into the houses. Adolescents moved from the sidewalk to the stoop to the hallway to the stairs, and rooftops were abandoned. Such trees as there were allowed their leaves to fall - they fell unnoticed - seeming to promise, not without bitterness,
Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.
Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed [Illustrated]
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
Jim Rohn -
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
T. S. Eliot -
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
Robert Browning -
Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
George Gissing -
Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long deferment of the calendar's promise that weeping gloom of March and April that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?
Rudyard Kipling -
No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.
Hal Borland -
No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.
Mark Beltaire -
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
William Shakespeare -
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
Anonymous -
Every April God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
Horace -
The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
Italian proverb -
Summer is the mother of the poor.
James Russell Lowell -
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
Hal Borland -
Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Siberian saying -
June's too soon July's too late - for summer.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.
Elizabeth Bowen -
Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.
Christina Petrowsky -
Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple.
James Russell Lowell -
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
E. B. White -
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
Dinah Mulock Craik -
Autumn to winter winter into spring. Spring into summer summer into fall - So rolls the changing year and so we change -Motion so swift we know not that we move.
Polish proverb -
Spring is a virgin Summer a mother Autumn a widow and Winter a stepmother.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters on Cézanne
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.
Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. This was the only truly sad time in Paris because it was unnatural. You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the win
Ernest Dowson - The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
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 shadow and the darkness meet Our love, a twilight of the heart Eludes a little time's deceit. Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let
Henry Beston -
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
P.D. James - A Taste for Death
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
Walt Whitman - The Complete Poems
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc
Brent M. Jones -
In the fall nature informs us of its artistic side. It again confirms the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.
N.M. Cherraj -
Floating along like a leaf after fallI land soft on the crisp ground belowstill tempted to fly, God hold me in place.
Anita Diamant - The Boston Girl
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
Debra Welsh -
Autumn is Nature's last party of the year. And dressing for the occasion, forests don their brightest attire, while the creatures follow suit with plush coats of fur. As the birds savor their final flights in the waning embers of light, Nature's children scamper about in search of manna for their winter pantries, pausing long enough to frolic in the heaps of newly fallen le
Christoph Christian Sturm - Reflections on the Works of God in Nature and Providence for Every Day in the Year
What an abundant harvest has been collected in autumn! The earth has now fulfilled its design for this year, and is going to repose for a short time. Thus nature is continually employed during the greatest part of the year: even in her rest she is active: and in silence prepares a new creation.
Robert Burns - Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding
John Greenleaf Whittier - Tales and Sketches
Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with the tints of autumn -- a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
George Gordon Byron - Don Juan
The mellow autumn came, and with it cameThe promised party, to enjoy its sweets.The corn is cut, the manor full of game;The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beatsIn russet jacket;—lynx-like is his aim;Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.Ah, nutbrown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants!And ah, ye poachers!—'Tis no sport for peasants.
Jane Hirshfield -
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to c
Larry Watson - Let Him Go
Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.
Donna Lynn Hope -
Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.
Helena Bonham Carter -
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
Bill Veeck -
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Confucius -
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
Joanna Franklin Bell - Mona Jamborski
But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.
Maria V. Snyder - Scent of Magic
We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassi
Toni Morrison - Beloved
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
Steven Magee -
I have a suspicion that when first built, Stonehenge may have glowed blue with St. Elmo's fire during certain times of the year
V.C. Andrews - Petals on the Wind
The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.
Cecelia Ahern -
SpringThe season between winter and summer, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe months March, April and May.The ability of something to return to its original shape when it is pressed down, stretched or twisted.
Cecelia Ahern - The Year I Met You
SummerThe seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe warmest months of the year: June, July and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.
Cecilia Ahern - The Year I met you
SummerThe seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe warmest months of the year: June, July and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.― Cecilia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern -
AutumnThe season between summer and winter, comprising in the Northern Hemisphereusually the months of September, October and November.A period of maturity.
Cecelia Ahern -
WinterThe season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere the coldest months of the year: December, January and February.A period of inactivity or decay.
Gris Grimly - Gris Grimly's Frankenstein
Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossoms or the expanding leaves — sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
Ezra Pound -
Winter is icummen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slopAnd how the wind doth ramm!Sing: Goddamm.Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,An ague hath my ham.Freezeth river, turneth liverDamn you, sing: Goddamm.Goddamm, Goddamm, tis why I am,Goddamm.So 'gainst the winter's balmSing Goddamm, damm, sing GoddammSing Goddamm, sing Goddamm,DAMM.
D. Alexander Neill -
Thus unto winter’s chill embrace I turnWho once the summer’s sun did blithely bide ‘Neath solemn visage cold and fair and sternIn her cool breast my hot heart to confide.Denied the warmth and wit of summer’s sun Or springtime’s strength, and bright, melodious song I dreamed not to complete what I’d begun Nor dared to haste the laggard hours along.But now with spring and summer sun at rest Laid bare before bright winter’s pale charms I would for love of her lay down my quest And take my ease in W
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Cold is cold.
R.A. Parry - James Dean Rode a Unicorn: A Fantastical Collection of Short Fiction
I kill the living to make way for the dead.But we had hot chocolate, she and I. We tried to make our friendship last as long as we could.Then I was forced to let her go. I held her when she returned to the earth.
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.
Saiber - The Summer in You
The summer in youcalms the winter in me.
Pamela Erens - The Understory
In the spring and summer I watched my plants flower, but it was, perhaps, in winter that I loved them best, when their skeletons were exposed. Then I felt they had more to say to me, were not simply dressing themselves for the crowds. Stripped of their leaves, their identities showed forth stark, essential.
David Almond - Skellig
She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have
T.H. White - The Sword in the Stone
These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The weather behaved itself.In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang; in the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed; in the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, te
Seanan McGuire - Sparrow Hill Road
Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.
John Geddes - A Familiar Rain
...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...
James Carlos Blake - Wildwood Boys
The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Cro
Teresa Lo - Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.
Lara Biyuts -
The bell tolling not for us, it’s time for bluebells.