Autumn Quote by Georges Rodenbach

“The early breeze sighing among the foliage, that waved high over the path, and the hollow dashing of distant waters, he listened to with…

— Ann Radcliffe

“He wandered aimlessly. The sun was setting. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he solaced himself…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This dark night…

— Emily Brontë

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in spite of…

— Andreï Makine

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first…

— Peter Ackroyd

"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and…

— Alexander MacLaren

“Though nothing much had happened, he felt that he had seen and experienced enough that day - thus securing his tomorrow. For today he…

— Peter Handke

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach