You can’t speak life to others if you don’t know how to…

“You did not lose if you lost things that made you lose yourself.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

Am like a tree I shed off dead leaves. Put away excess baggage because it can easily become garbage

— Frank Matobo

“The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.”

— Jim Crace

“Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violently like a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the…

— V.S. Atbay

“The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires”

— V. E. Schwab

“We too, like trees can shake off our dead leaves and begin again.”

— A.Y. Greyson

“There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a…

— Karen Russell

“My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“As the future ripens in the past... a terrible festival of dead leaves”

— Anna Ahkmatova

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

— Suzanne Collins

“Be like a tree, Let the dead leaves Drop.”

— Rumi

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked…

— Robert Frost