Fall Quote by W. H. Auden

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.

— W. H. Auden

Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.

— William C. Bryant

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

— Sean Covey

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay…

— Robert Frost

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

— Arthur Golden

“Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to…

— Théophile Gautier

“Can I, that these flowers’ obsequies attend, Divine how soon or late my life will end? Let others laugh flower-burial to see: Another year…

— Cao Xueqin

Where have all the flowers gone

— Marlene Dietrich

“October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate…

— J.K. Rowling

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

— Erik Larson

“Alas! it is better to wander in perpetual sterility than to be tortured with the remembrance of flowers that have withered”

— Charles Robert Maturin

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers…

— Henry Mitchell