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Seasons32 quotes
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609But winter is coming. — Jon Snow · 2015It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens · 1861April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot · 1922Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. — Henry David Thoreau · 1853Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather · 1918All 32 quotes →Spring9 quotes
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens · 1861April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot · 1922Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. — Kenneth Grahame · 1908Spring is the time of plans and projects. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877The snows have fled, now grass returns to the fields and leaves to the trees. — Horace · 11 BCThe month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485All 9 quotes →Summer7 quotes
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609Summer time and the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma' is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry. — Ira Gershwin · 1935Now the summer came to pass
And flowers through the grass
Joyously sprang,
While all the tribes of birds sang. — Walther von der Vogelweide · 1230Wheree'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. — Alexander Pope · 1709Summer has set in with its usual severity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1826Why, this is very midsummer madness! — William Shakespeare · 1602All 7 quotes →Winter7 quotes
But winter is coming. — Jon Snow · 2015Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather · 1918See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad. — James Thomson · 1726In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago. — Christina Rossetti · 1875The English winter—ending in July,
To recommence in August. — Lord Byron · 1823Winter, which being full of care
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare. — William Shakespeare · 1609All 7 quotes →Autumn4 quotes
Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything. — Robert Browning · 1855The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1847Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampListen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves! — Humbert Wolfe · 1926Nature3 quotes
Does Heaven say anything? The four seasons run their course and all things are produced. Does Heaven say anything? — Confucius · 221 BCAutumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampThere is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there. — Paul KleeApril1 quote
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot · 1922Baseball1 quote
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti · 1977Being present1 quote
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. — Henry David Thoreau · 1853Circle of life1 quote
The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling. — John Greenleaf Whittier · 1847Death1 quote
Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampGod and man1 quote
Does Heaven say anything? The four seasons run their course and all things are produced. Does Heaven say anything? — Confucius · 221 BCMan and nature1 quote
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. — Henry David Thoreau · 1853March1 quote
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens · 1861May1 quote
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485Night and day1 quote
The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling. — John Greenleaf Whittier · 1847October1 quote
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1847Sports1 quote
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti · 1977The ephemeral1 quote
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609Weather1 quote
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens · 1861