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“An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.”

Sun Sadness Garden Shining Autumn

Author:Francis Brett Young

“Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.”

Knows Feels Wells Past Pleasure Sadness Good Times Autumn April Twigs

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”

Years Whole Lasts Beautiful Felt Sadness Duty Summer Spread Autumn Cricket Rumor Summertime Beautiful Day Whole Year

Author:E. B. White

“Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.”

Heart Enough Sadness Sad Late Rose Evening Autumn Pierce So Sad

Book:Saints and Strangers

Source: Saints and Strangers

“Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!”

Men Life Doe Shows Faces Dark Sadness Honest Months Spring Tragedy Separation Autumn

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.”

Feels Fall Sadness Summer Smell Smoke Unexpected Autumn Fades Thrill October Departure Nervousness Fall Autumn Fall Season Elation Autumn Season Sharpness October And Fall Summer To Fall

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”

“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.”

Feels Voice Sadness Dying Autumn Paradox Exquisite Ripe Meaning Something

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.”

Years Fall Sadness Wind Woods Naked Brown Autumn Melancholy November Meadows Saddest Wailing Autumn Days Sears Autumn Wind

Author:William C. Bryant

“I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.”

Needs Years Wells Seems Mystery Sadness Dying Quiet Strikes Autumn Melancholy

Author:Kyffin Williams