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Top 20 Daniel Mason Quotes (2026 Update)

Daniel Mason Quote: “At times I wonder if the reason I have lost track of time is that I will know when to return not by a date, but when an emptiness is filled.”

1. “At times I wonder if the reason I have lost track of time is that I will know when to return not by a date, but when an emptiness is filled.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said “What will you be? What will you do?” I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.”

2. “A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said “What will you be? What will you do?” I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “The conversations rests uneasily; one doesn’t expect good-byes to be burdened by such trivialities. This is not how it is in the books, he thinks, or in the theater, and he feels the need to speak of mission, of duty, of love. They reach home and close the door and he doesn’t drop her hand. Where speech fails, touch compensates.”

3. “The conversations rests uneasily; one doesn’t expect good-byes to be burdened by such trivialities. This is not how it is in the books, he thinks, or in the theater, and he feels the need to speak of mission, of duty, of love. They reach home and close the door and he doesn’t drop her hand. Where speech fails, touch compensates.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “That you are the single person in the world who makes me more than what everyone else sees: that you created me, that in your mind lives the person I wish to be.”

4. “That you are the single person in the world who makes me more than what everyone else sees: that you created me, that in your mind lives the person I wish to be.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “To mourn a lost friend, however, is not the same as wishing for another.”

5. “To mourn a lost friend, however, is not the same as wishing for another.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “I propose a new calendar: not one autumn but twelve, a hundred. The autumn when the birches are yellow but still have their leaves; when the beeches are green but the birch leaves have fallen; when the oaks tint to the color of ripe apricots and the beeches yellow; when the oaks turn a cigar brown and the beeches curl up into crispy copper rolls. And so on: I’ve missed a few. But to call it all just “autumn”!”

6. “I propose a new calendar: not one autumn but twelve, a hundred. The autumn when the birches are yellow but still have their leaves; when the beeches are green but the birch leaves have fallen; when the oaks tint to the color of ripe apricots and the beeches yellow; when the oaks turn a cigar brown and the beeches curl up into crispy copper rolls. And so on: I’ve missed a few. But to call it all just “autumn”!”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Like all charms, it will lose its Magic when it becomes a Method.”

7. “Like all charms, it will lose its Magic when it becomes a Method.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “And yet to have claimed that a warm spring morning walking over earth carpeted with apple blossoms was somehow the same, substantively, spiritually, as a cold winter noon spent pruning, or a harvest evening heavy with the smell of juice and hay – this would have betrayed an ignorance not only of country life, but of the thousand seasons – of frogsong, of thunderheads, of first thaws – that hid within the canonical Four.”

8. “And yet to have claimed that a warm spring morning walking over earth carpeted with apple blossoms was somehow the same, substantively, spiritually, as a cold winter noon spent pruning, or a harvest evening heavy with the smell of juice and hay – this would have betrayed an ignorance not only of country life, but of the thousand seasons – of frogsong, of thunderheads, of first thaws – that hid within the canonical Four.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Out here, no one tears down anyway – one just adds upon, agglutinates, house to house, shed to shed, like some monstrous German noun.”

9. “Out here, no one tears down anyway – one just adds upon, agglutinates, house to house, shed to shed, like some monstrous German noun.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “I felt the forest watching as I reached up to take another apple. Then I paused. The house was empty, the ground thick with rotting windfall, and still I felt as if I were trespassing on another’s bounty. So I took just four more: for Constance, for Alice, for Mary, and one for Rumbold, who must be cold and worried back on the road. Then one more for myself.”

10. “I felt the forest watching as I reached up to take another apple. Then I paused. The house was empty, the ground thick with rotting windfall, and still I felt as if I were trespassing on another’s bounty. So I took just four more: for Constance, for Alice, for Mary, and one for Rumbold, who must be cold and worried back on the road. Then one more for myself.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Such joy that your sweet company makes Does leave a shadow in its wake.”

11. “Such joy that your sweet company makes Does leave a shadow in its wake.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Between 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening.”

12. “Between 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Morris was blessed with one of the greatest gifts that the Deity might bestow on one of His creations: the profound indifference to others’ opinions.”

13. “Morris was blessed with one of the greatest gifts that the Deity might bestow on one of His creations: the profound indifference to others’ opinions.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “From there, according to the map, a road should have taken her into the mountains, but the asphalt soon gave way to dirt, dead-ending at a long driveway flanked by those twin heralds of American hospitality, Private Property and Beware of Dog.”

14. “From there, according to the map, a road should have taken her into the mountains, but the asphalt soon gave way to dirt, dead-ending at a long driveway flanked by those twin heralds of American hospitality, Private Property and Beware of Dog.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”

15. “Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Robert, she thought, suddenly. Because one needed friends to be a Bobby or a Bob.”

16. “Robert, she thought, suddenly. Because one needed friends to be a Bobby or a Bob.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Take a man in perfect health, and let him assert against the general opinion, and you will find such man accused of deviancy, or error, or madness.”

17. “Take a man in perfect health, and let him assert against the general opinion, and you will find such man accused of deviancy, or error, or madness.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Frost silvered the tops of the mountains, the winds shook the leaves from the branches, and each morning, the woods seemed thinner, as if the country were slowly showing him what lay within.”

18. “Frost silvered the tops of the mountains, the winds shook the leaves from the branches, and each morning, the woods seemed thinner, as if the country were slowly showing him what lay within.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Which is why, to this day, if you are passing the Fludd property on a morning, and you look into his apple orchard, you will see the diligent farmer, his wife, their three daughters, and their grandchildren, all squatting red-faced and bare-bottomed at the base of the accursed apple tree, thinking this will be the s – t that brings them fame at last.”

19. “Which is why, to this day, if you are passing the Fludd property on a morning, and you look into his apple orchard, you will see the diligent farmer, his wife, their three daughters, and their grandchildren, all squatting red-faced and bare-bottomed at the base of the accursed apple tree, thinking this will be the s – t that brings them fame at last.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.”

20. “And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Passion sometimes gets the better of Reason.”

21. “Passion sometimes gets the better of Reason.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “Can there be art without the human in it? Maybe that is what I wish to capture: beast as seen by beast, tree as seen by tree. I jest, but not really.”

22. “Can there be art without the human in it? Maybe that is what I wish to capture: beast as seen by beast, tree as seen by tree. I jest, but not really.”

— Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason Quote: “She was struck by the discrepancy in meaning the belongings presented. That death meant not only the cessation of a life, but vast worlds of significance. A candle that might have once provided comfort in the winter darkness, a shawl gifted by an erstwhile suitor, a pheasant that recalled her poor lost grandfather. Old brass, old rag, old bird.”

23. “She was struck by the discrepancy in meaning the belongings presented. That death meant not only the cessation of a life, but vast worlds of significance. A candle that might have once provided comfort in the winter darkness, a shawl gifted by an erstwhile suitor, a pheasant that recalled her poor lost grandfather. Old brass, old rag, old bird.”

— Daniel Mason

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