Quotes by Spring We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns. Hideo Kojima autumnsummerspring Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. Henry Rollins heatpreparationspring The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. Henry David Thoreau pleasuremusicspring It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down. Haruki Murakami springanimalschool One flower may slay the winter Hilda Doolittle flowerwinterspring What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think? Haruki Murakami springnightthinking Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me. Henry Rollins springyearsfall Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year. Herodotus takenspringyears You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 'Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh? Haruki Murakami nicespringsweet If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or Henry Wadsworth Longfellow naturespringtime From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move. Haruki Murakami laughtergirlspring Does not all the blood within me Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sunshinespringlife The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. Henry Miller punishmentstudyspring But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs. Herbert Hoover strugglespiritualspring Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine Henry Wadsworth Longfellow daughtermotherspring Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field. Henry Ward Beecher flowerspringchildren A tree says: Hermann Hesse springfatherchildren When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here. Henry Ford springtreefall I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. Haruki Murakami homewritingspring What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile. Hermann Hesse intellectualspringworld«5051525354555657585960»
