“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
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novelist 1835–1902Related quotes
"To Autumn", st. 1
Poems (1820)
Context: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
The Winter Pear; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
Jim Bishop (1907–1987) American journalist and author
“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
XXV, 58
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“For everything we gain we lose something.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
