Life Quote by Tan Twan Eng

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

— Lauren DeStefano

“[…] there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels,…

— Robert Walser

“The leaves of life are falling one by one”

— Omar Khayyam

“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall…

— Emily Brontë

“The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know…

— Pico Iyer

“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

“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.”

— Roman Payne

“With pride the world is falling, with fear the earth is sleeping. With hope we’re fading away, tears and rain passing us by. This…

— Nadine Faith

“Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the…

— Omar Khayyam

“One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the…

— Omar Khayyám