Quotes by Spring Spring-an experience in immortality. Henry David Thoreau immortalityspring One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. Henry David Thoreau should-havespringopportunity What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow heartspringchildren Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box. Henry Miller struggleletting-gospring They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself. Henry David Thoreau winterspringmen A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds. Haruki Murakami softballspringfun When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. Henry Miller parisspringtravel Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow autumnspringcharacter A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. Homer springwindmen Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance. Horace Kallen inspirationspringmotivational The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. Horace Greeley adversityfirespring Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," as many, no more. Horace Bushnell lawspringson Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent. Haruki Murakami snakesspringtwo Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. Hosea Ballou gratitudespringthank-you In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed. Horatius Bonar doefeelingsspring A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns. Henry Ward Beecher springmotivationalhappiness Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion. Henry Ward Beecher springlaughingreligion My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them. Horace Walpole hatespringmen It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow autumnspringfall If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Honore de Balzac springenemyyears«5152535455565758596061»
