A Quotes
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“Autumn seemed much deeper than spring, as sadness is deeper than brief joy, or memory than hope”
Source: The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
“Autumn sharpens the night air
and paints the morning gold
on the edge of winter’s silver breath,
dancing delicately between life and death,
between 4 pm and 3 am.”
“Autumn Shimmer"
In the heart of autumn,
in the season of falling leaves,
when golden foliage swirls like forgotten dreams,
sadness falls upon the withering trees,
but you shimmer like a beautiful love breeze.
The world grows silent beneath a fading sun,
Yet you rise in my heart — my dawn, my only sun.
In autumn when everything withers,
Petals fall like broken feathers
Yet you appear, a single blooming rose,
gorgeous and radiant, heaven knows.
The air grows colder, memories freeze in pain,
yet your presence brings spring once again.
My hope never dies — you are the reason,
you are the breath of life in a dying season.
Your gentle touch soothes my soul with ease,
In the heart of autumn,
you shimmer like a beautiful love breeze.
Brimming with the vibrant colors of life.
A flower that never fades,
among the parched, fallen autumn leaves,
you are the only beautiful rose —
delicate, divine, and dewy.
Thirsty autumn drinks nectar from your embrace.
Upon the wilted dry yellow leaves,
you are the dew of God’s grace.
Autumn withers golden leaves,
but you shimmer like a beautiful love breeze.
You shimmer like a beautiful love breeze.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Autumn stomps around outside the house
like an annoying little sister, tapping
on all the shutters, kicking up the piles
of leaves you rake, pretending to howl
like a wolf. But I'm glad she's here,
so we can cuss at Summer together,
pretending we don't even remember her name.”
Source: The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door
“Autumn teaches us a valuable lesson. During summer, all the green trees are beautiful. But there is no time of the year when the trees are more beautiful than when they are different colors. Diversity adds beauty to our world.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.”
Source: Time and chance
“Autumn.
The grace in letting dead things fall.”
“Autumn
The passion
Is still flourishing in the branches
Yellow funny and daring red
The sun warms even in the days
Where the fog
Stubbornly in the morning
From a distance
A woodpecker knocks
Impermanence
Is the enemy of beauty”
“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.”
“Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.”
“Autumn was a harvest of big-box stores and their back-to-school sales: fruit leather, instant mac 'n' cheese, and bread that we unhusked, crinkling, from its plastic sleeve. My mouth watered for the sweetness of processed wheat sown thick through gas stations from California to New York. Honey Buns and Wonder Breads, in perfect squares and machined circles, and the ripe weight of a Danish, mass-produced, that attempts no fidelity to the country after which it is named--- no country but this one ambered by waves of industrial grain.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“Autumn wears the gown of gold. The sadness becomes the burning flames, the longing to live, one last time. Behind the wheels of life, it is God, the painter, who awakens colors in farewell moments, as if the lamp of light is burning before it dies.”
“Autumn, when, ultimately, all illusions fall away and are cast aside, leaving the trees and hills and roadways--the very earth itself--laid bare and open, stark realities fully revealed.
You cannot move forward in the real world if you cannot see the real world.
You cannot find the beauty in the world if all you see is its adornment.”
“Autumn Window: A Night of Wind and Rain
The autumn flowers are dead, the leaves are sere;
Lamp-light comes soon, the nights grow long again.
Outside my window autumn’s signs appear
More dismal in the wind and rustling rain.
The rustling rain came in such swift downpour
It startled me from autumn-dream-filled sleep.
Now, in a muse, unable to sleep more,
I watch the candle at my bedside weep.
The candle weeps down to its socket low,
And my heart weeps and desolation feels.
Yet the same wind in other courts must blow;
The sound of rain through other windows steals.
The wind’s chill strikes through quilt and counterpane,
The rain drums like a mad clock in my ears,
All night, in whispering, monotone refrain,
Companion to my own swift-coursing tears.
The courtyard now with mist begins to fill,
The bamboo’s drip persists without a pause.
When will the wind cease and the rain be still,
That with its weeping soaks my window’s gauze?”
Source: The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 2: The Crab-Flower Club
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840
“Autumn's the mellow time.”
Source: Evil May-day, &c
“Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”
“Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.”
“Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.”
Source: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
“Aux jeunes, je dis: regardez autour de vous, vous y trouverez les thèmes qui justifient votre indignation — le traitement faits aux immigrés, aux sans-papiers, aux Roms. Vous trouverez des situations concrètes qui vous amènent à donner cours à une action citoyenne forte. Cherchez et vous trouverez!”
Source: Indignez-vous !
“Aux lecteurs:
Amis lecteurs, qui ce livre lisez,
Despouillez vous de toute affection;
Et, le lisant, ne vous scandalisez:
Il ne contient mal ne infection;
Vray est qu'icy peu de perfection
Vous apprendrez, si non en cas de rire;
Aultre argument ne peut mon cueur elire,
Voyant le dueil qui vous mine et consomme
Mieulx est de risque de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Aux trois gunas correspondent des couleurs symboliques : le blanc à sattwa, le rouge à rajas, le noir à tamas ; en vertu du rapport que nous indiquons ici, les deux premières de ces couleurs symbolisent aussi respectivement l’autorité spirituelle et le pouvoir temporel. – Il est intéressant de noter, à ce propos, que l’« oriflamme » des rois de France était rouge ; la substitution ultérieure du blanc au rouge comme couleur royale marque, en quelque sorte, l’usurpation d’un des attributs de l’autorité spirituelle.”
Source: Spiritual Authority & Temporal Power
“Auzi, bă, Gore, ei o să rămână nişte ziarişti toată viaţa, noi o să rămânem poeţi toată moartea!
Oi, listen Gore, they're gonna be journalists for the rest of their lives, but we will be poets throughout death!”
“Außerdem ist es jedes Mal, wenn man liebt, das einzige Mal, dass man je geliebt hat.”
Source: Das Bildis des Dorian Gray und andere Werke
“Außerdem war mir, als hätte ich was wichtiges verloren. Mein altes Selbst. Mich, vor all dem Schlechten. Und ich wusste nicht mal wann es passierte war und wie es zu mir zurück kehren konnte.”
Source: Дни нашей жизни
“Av jord var de kommet, til jord skulle de bli, og i de få årene livet levde i dem, var det fra jorden det hentet sin kraft. Den eneste veien ut av det, var lenger inn i det. Lavt er pliktens himmel hvelvet, men det er en himmel. Under den gikk Lamek, og der fant han sin mening. Denne meningen hadde en fiende, det var lengselen etter noe annet, og den bekjempet han med det eneste middelet han kjente: mer arbeid. Arbeidet var således både flukten, og det han flyktet fra.”
Source: A Time for Everything
“Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes.”
Source: Winter Stroll
“Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.”
“Ava had once told [Gisela], "Never let yourself fall in love with someone who doesn't love you. Or at least don't tell them you love them, whatever you do." It had seemed likewise counsel. A person who didn't love you could use the knowledge of your love against you.”
Source: The Captive Maiden
“Ava had to get Maxime’s location soon so she could get out of there. She’d seen enough of this place and its people that she never wanted to come back. She texted the judge: Do you have the information? I need it. I have to leave here soon.”
Source: Until Morning Comes
“Ava is drawn to wealthy partners as a means of quieting her class anxieties. In practice, having sex with rich people only heightens her awareness that she herself is not rich, and yet she keeps on doing it.”
Source: Exciting Times
“Ava laughed. "Yesterday you did an interview without wearing pants, and today you're crashing a wedding. I'm a little worried about tomorrow.”
Source: The Wedding Crasher and the Cowboy
“Ava reached the highway again. Not a soul was in sight. Not a car, not a bird, and certainly no man. Just one woman walking into a new era of her life, into the hope for a future, another dawn, another day, as the morning sun rose above the mountain crest, painting her face with light.”
Source: Until Morning Comes
“Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconscious. by listening to the language of dreams and old tales, he said, all humans could learn to understand themselves and the world, better.”
Source: The Beast's Garden
“Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy.”
Source: Ecstasy in Darkness
“Ava sang to remind them of what was important – the things that mattered in their lives.
She sang about the love of hearth and home; the fire at night in the fireplace; dinner warm on the table; a caring wife and hard-working husband who relied on each other for everything; of babies still in their cradles; toddlers climbing on knees wanting to be cuddled; of teenage boys and girls helping their parents run the homestead.
She sang of warm summers and cozy winters with lots of heavy blankets; of harmony and love; well-being and gratitude for the harvest - for the bounty by which they all lived.
She sang of the joy of a new life; the births of their children; the enduring love in the twilight of old age between a man and his wife - the years behind them like the building blocks of an enormous castle.”
Source: The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin
“Ava, se você for ouvir tudo que as pessoas esperam de você, vai viver a vida que elas querem. Várias pessoas vão achar que você é só músculo e nenhum cérebro, mas você tem de se perguntar se isso é real. A impressão que elas têm de você não é a verdade. Não é o respeito delas que vai fazer você melhor ou pior! O que os outros acham de você não a define, e sim como você se vê, a forma como pensa de si mesma.”
Source: A Ilha dos Dissidentes
“Ava turned to the side, staring out into the dark. In profile, her face was suddenly tired and sad, and Cole felt the urge to wrap himself around her. To protect her from whatever was dragging her down.”
Source: Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down
“Ava was almost twenty-six, on her own, in a decent and mostly stable relationship, eternally grateful to be away from Jeffrey Hoffman’s clutches. Hoffman had held her captive for just over four years until she escaped that life at eighteen. In the first few years of her escape, she’d had as much therapy as she could tolerate, preferring to get on with things.”
Source: Until Morning Comes
“Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.”
“Availability, meanwhile, means that you make judgement calls on the basis of whatever information comes to mind easiest, rather than deeply considering all the possible information that might be available to you. And that means we're hugely biased towards basing our world view on stuff that's happened most recently, or things that are particularly dramatic and memorable, while all the old, mundane stuff that's probably a more accurate representation of everyday reality just sort of …fades away.”
Source: Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
“Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil costs me very much. By the time it is shipped here and we pay tariffs, how much more do I have to charge the consumer? And then who could afford to buy it? That is why people sell synthetic rose and end up poisoning themselves. It shouldn't be that way.”
“Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.”
“Available light is any damn light that is available!”
“Available on all video game systems: Playstation 475, Ybox, and Wii 3 4000.”
“Available only
to souls
who once died inside —
and came back
full of truth.
Not meant
for those still living
for appearances,
approval,
or illusion.
This book
is not just meant
to be read.
It’s meant
to be felt.”
— Phoenix Moon”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.”