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My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.
— Kemi Sogunle
I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.
— Patricia Briggs
So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.
— Nevil Shute
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
— Tom Waits
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
— Dwight L. Moody
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.
— Zakk Wylde
She brushed the old years and habits and inhibitions away from her like dead leaves. She would not be littered with them.
— L.M. Montgomery
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
— Alma Gluck
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
— Raymond Chandler
The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I look at our tree, at its leaves still reaching for the sun, still working to turn light into food. They don't know they are dead yet.
— Ally Condie
A few dead leaves fell down on top of her, carrying the scent of dew and the sound of birdsong. Taking
— Charlie N. Holmberg
On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.
— Patrick Modiano
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future
a terrible festival of dead leaves. — Anna Akhmatova
a terrible festival of dead leaves. — Anna Akhmatova
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
— William Allingham
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
— Tom Schulman
When he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.
— Zachary Schomburg
Hear the leaves applauding
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head — Shannon Hale
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head — Shannon Hale
So I woke, I listened, and I heard the small sounds of a wood at night, the things moving, the claws in the dead leaves, the wind's soft sighs.
— Bernard Cornwell
Every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.
— Ben H. Winters
the song of the dead
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums — Antonio Cisneros
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums — Antonio Cisneros
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
— Cyril Connolly
We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.
— Chaim Potok
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
— John Galsworthy
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
— Charles Dickens
I'm in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.
— Suzanne Collins
Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!
— Terry Pratchett
The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires
— V.E Schwab