Quotes about spring

Ismail Haniyeh -

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone

All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life not a breath to stir the dead leaves fallen on my heart’s Spring.

Debasish Mridha -

Spring shows the power and love of the earth she can grow magnificent flowers from the dirt.

Ernie Pyle -

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

Jean de la Bruyere -

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Steve Southerland -

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Thucydides -

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Matthew Stover -

There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

John E. Wordslinger -

Our Lord shouts and screamshis tears fall from heaven and spring the streams

Michelle Franklin - and the worl

I am heartily glad that the trees and plants are still interested in copulatory activities I only wishthey would be so good as to keep their sperm away from my face. Do not pretend that pollen isanything else it transfers haploid male genetic material and sullies the bedclothes unmercifully.

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

To love all ages yield surrenderBut to the young it's raptures bringA blessing bountiful and tender-As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Vladimir Nabokov - Mary

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Elyne Mitchell - Moon Filly

Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

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 welcome."]

Kobayashi Issa - Poems

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

Yoko Ono -

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Alberto Caeiro - The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

She’s a manner of speaking.Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

Alberto Caeiro - The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it that everything is real and everything is right;And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.And so, if I die now, I die peacefullyBecause everything is real and everything is right.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Spring time is nature at its best.

Eileen Granfors - And More White Sheets: An expanded text edition

Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "Spring Flight

Mark Doty - Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I shouldn’t be feeling this lightness, that familiar little catch of pleasure in the heart which is inexplicable, though a lovely passage of notes or the splendidly turned petal of a tulip has triggered it.

Barbara Kingsolver - Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.

Debasish Mridha -

Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?

Debasish Mridha -

Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy.

Debasish Mridha -

Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

In your winter you deny your spring,

Debasish Mridha -

Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring.

Lilly Pulitzer -

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

Kristin Kimball -

It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

Angela Carter - Shadow Dance

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

Jessica Stern - Denial: A Memoir of Terror

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

Walter de la Mare - Peacock Pie

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too deep,And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.Up shone May, like gold, and soonGreen as an arbour grew leafy June.And now all summer she sits and sewsWhere willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;Like Oberon's meadows her garden isDrowsy from dawn to dusk with

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

There’s something of a restorative quality about spring, where something whispers wild rumors of new beginnings arising from the seemingly dead seeds in our lives. There’s something almost cruel about it all, as if there might be some sort of truth about a new life actually being possible. Yet, maybe it is true.

Jessica Stern - Denial: A Memoir of Terror

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

Toni Sorenson -

You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator.

K. Hari Kumar -

Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.

Primo Levi - Survival in Auschwitz

The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the human substance. Free men give many names to this purpose, and think and talk a lot about its nature. But for us the question is simpler. Today, in this place, our only purpose is to reach the spring. At the moment we care about nothing else. Behind this aim there is not at the moment any other aim. In the morning while we wait endlessly lined up in roll-call square for the time to leave for work, whi

Jane Mendelsohn - I Was Amelia Earhart

The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.

Li Shangyin -

Heart’s fragrance is spent with the ending of springAnd nothing left but a tear-stained robe.

Debasish Mridha -

After winter, spring never forgets to come.

Debasish Mridha -

To enjoy and appreciate the beauty of a dazzling spring, I save winter in my warm heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough - An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.

L.M. Montgomery -

That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.

Carew Papritz - his Final Gift

Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.

Tanya Gambhir -

Brilliant boom of Spring is nothing if not for the timely death of Autumn~

Noah Warren -

I know I’m not the only one whose life is a conditional clausehanging from something to do with spring and one tall room and the tremble of my phone.I’m not the only one that love makes feel like a dozenflapping bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind.

Mary Balogh - A Matter of Class

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

Bashō Matsuo - Japanese Haiku

Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still...Iris, blue each spring

Jessica Stern - Denial: A Memoir of Terror

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.

Pablo Neruda -

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ode to the West Wind

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

E.E. Cummings - 100 Selected Poems

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

Cecilia Llompart - The Wingless

If Springtime crawls out of thewild mouths of flowers, thensurely, Winter crawls out of mine.

Roman Payne - Rooftop Soliloquy

So the nymphs they spoke,we kissed and laid.By noontime’s hourour love was made.Like braided chains of crocus stems,we lay entwined, I laid with them.Our breath, one glassy, tideless sea,our bodies draping wearily,we slept, I slept so lucidly,with hopes to stay this memory.

Roman Payne - Rooftop Soliloquy

Did I live the spring I’d sought?It’s true in joy, I walked along,took part in dance, and sang the song.and never tried to bind an hourto my borrowed garden bower;nor did I once entreata day to slumber at my feet.Yet days aren’t lulled by lyric song,like morning birds they pass along,o’er crests of trees, to none belong;o’er crests of trees of drying dew,their larking flight, my hands, eschewThus I’ll say it once and true…From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot

Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Complete Poems

And the Spring arose on the garden fair,Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breastRose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Edna St. Vincent Millay -

TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down t

E.E. Cummings -

sweet spring is yourtime is my time is ourtime for springtime is lovetimeand viva sweet love(all the merry little birds areflying in the floating in thevery spirits singing inare winging in the blossoming)lovers go and lovers comeawandering awonderingbut any two are perfectlyalone there's nobody else alive(such a sky and such a suni never knew and neither did youand everybody never breathedquite so many kinds of yes)not a tree can count his leaveseach herself by openingbut shining who by thousan

George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on. See almost any poet between the Bronze Age and 1805.

Marty Rubin -

The deep roots never doubt spring will come.

Debasish Mridha -

Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.

Debasish Mridha -

It is always a joyful spring when your heart can dance and your soul can sing.

Anne Bishop - Murder of Crows

The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

Giovanna Fletcher - Christmas With Billy and Me

I love the arrival of a new season — each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of hope; summer is freedom; autumn is a colourful release, and winter brings an enchanting peace. It's hard to pick which one I enjoy the most — each time the new one arrives, I remember its beauty and forget the previous one whose qualities have started to dim.

Yoshida Kenkō - Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Spring season is a sacred season of great strength.

John Muir - The Wilderness World of John Muir

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Willa Cather - My Ántonia

After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used to watch in Virginia, no budding woods or blooming gardens. There was only—spring itself; the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere: in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm, high wind—rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive and playf

Margaret Atwood - Bluebeard's Egg

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Erin Hanson -

Because the birdsong might be pretty,But it's not for you they sing,And if you think my winter is too cold,You don't deserve my spring.

John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

Mary Oliver - A Thousand Mornings

Every springI hear the thrush singingin the glowing woodshe is only passing through.His voice is deep,then he lifts it until it seemsto fall from the sky.I am thrilled.I am grateful.Then, by the end of morning,he's gone, nothing but silenceout of the treewhere he rested for a night.And this I find acceptable.Not enough is a poor life.But too much is, well, too much.Imagine Verdi or Mahlerevery day, all day.It would exhaust anyone.

Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask

The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees so invariably that one has to come to think of them as the attire of cherry blossoms; there were no bustling tea-stalls, no holiday crowds of flower-viewers, no one hawking balloons and toy windmills; instead there were only the cherry trees blossoming undisturbed among the evergreens, making one feel as though he were seeing the naked bodies of the b

Munia Khan -

Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.

Susan Fenimore Cooper -

The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year! If the blossoms were liable to change–if they were to become capricious and irregular–they might excite more surprise, more curiosity, but we should love them less; they might be just as bright, and gay, and fragrant under other forms, but they would not be the violets, and squirrel-cups, and ground laurels we loved last year. Whatever your roving fancies may say, there is a v

Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic

Blessed be, it's finally Spring. In joy and delight the birds sing, Ravished upon the entire earth, The new rebirth, Helas, the joy it brings!

Edward Abbey - Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement - mating season. And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with.

Akshay Vasu -

You have the touch of nature you know, where she touches everything that is dead and they spring back into life again. I realised that the day you touched me for the first time. I felt I was standing somewhere I had never been before and all of a sudden life started pouring over me like a rain and drenching me with it. I had never felt that alive before.

Lady Gregory - Son of Cumhal”

The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

...as young and as ancient as Spring....

Dalai Lama XIV - Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

Meanwhile, spring came, and with it the outpourings of Nature. The hills were soon splashed with wild flowers; the grass became an altogether new and richer shade of green; and the air became scented with fresh and surprising smells -- of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lavender.

Toni Sorenson -

You are brighter than the sunlight and bolder than a rainbow. You are the reason spring was created in the first place.

Toni Sorenson -

Don’t even try to count all the colors of spring. God’s pallet keeps generating new hues.

Toni Sorenson -

Sunshine and water—the perfect recipe for happiness.

Toni Sorenson -

Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts.

Toni Sorenson -

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.

Toni Sorenson -

Spring gives hope that God believes in second chances.

Toni Sorenson -

If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

All seasons are spectacular.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Nature is well-spring of life.

Guy de Maupassant - Part One

When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when the perfumed warmth of the air blows on our faces and fills our lungs, and even appears to penetrate to our heart, we feel vague longings for undefined happiness, a wish to run, to walk at random, to inhale the spring.

Der Nister - The Family Mashber

No matter where one looked, the sky had a clean-washed appearance. There was not a trace of a cloud to be seen anywhere in its vast expanse. It was one of those days that made one want to open doors and gates to release the last traces of winter, to watch them disappear like thin wisps of smoke into the farthest reaches of the sky.

Maria Elena - Eternal Youth

I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses.