Autumn Quote by Robert Lowell

“And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.”

— Michael Cunningham

“The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“More rain. If there's any more ran than this, I think, we'll need gills. We could swim up to the sky and leave this…

— Amie Kaufman

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.”

— Horace Walpole

“Nature abhors a long silence.”

— Lewis Thomas

“See the fish...Just like war. War swims along, sees food, contracts. A moment later - Earth is gone.”

— Ray Bradbury

“It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.”

— John Steinbeck

“The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared.”

— David Guterson

“I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Intent on their small extinctions, they are ignorant of the greater death going on all around them.”

— Guy Haley

“The air smelled of salt and sand and fish. As though all was peace, and harvesttime, and autumn nights. Not the end of everything.”

— Julie Berry