Alas Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

— Homer

“The leaves of life are falling one by one”

— Omar Khayyam

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

— Socrates

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Clock of Life is wound by once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late…

— The Clock of Life

“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems…

— Marcel Proust

“One doesn’t cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn't have seasons enough to have a season for every…

— Yehuda Amichai

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

— Federico Garcia Lorca