Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look… — Neil Gaiman
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as… — Leonard Cohen
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a… — Henry David Thoreau
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The… — Alexander Pushkin
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the… — David Levithan
time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough — E E Cummings
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. — Shannon Hale
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in… — Nhat Hanh
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them).Â Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet… — Federico Garcia Lorca
you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your… — Naomi Shihab Nye
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall… — Virginia Woolf
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then… — Chelsea Handler
It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which… — John Steinbeck
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered… — George Carlin
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf? — Larry Niven
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will… — Gustave Flaubert
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless… — A. E. Housman

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