Festivals Quote by Anna Akhmatova

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

— Anna Ahkmatova

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

— Alexander Pushkin

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves!…

— Henry David Thoreau

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

— Storm Jameson

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die...

— Sara Teasdale

“Traditions never die” ... They sometimes get a back- seat for convenience, and bloom back at right moment...”

— Anvita Bajpai

There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves.

— Anonymous

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've…

— Truman Capote

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

— Alfred North Whitehead