Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violently…

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

“Dear, dear Norland,' said Elinor, 'probably looks much as it always does at this time of year. The woods and walks thickly covered with…

— Jane Austen

“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

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

“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

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but…

— Tennessee Williams