These Autumnal Quotes Will Put You in the Mood for Fall
Maybe it's the weather (cool, crisp, sweater-ready), maybe it's the aesthetics (the blazing colors of the leaves, the cozy vibes of scented candles and pumpkin spice), or maybe it's a sort of wistful back to school nostalgia that grips all of us long after graduation, but there's no denying that there's just something special about fall. No wonder it's served as an inspiration for some of the greatest writers, philosophers, comedians, and speakers in history. If you're feeling the tug of fall, here are some of the best quotes about autumn to get you geared up for the changing of the season.
"I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift."
– Dodinsky
"The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!"
– Humbert Wolfe
"There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees–as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again."
– Ruth Ahmed
"It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."
– Diana Gabaldon
"I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers."
– Leif Enger
"The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground."
– Andrea Gibson
"Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves."
– Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
"The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late."
– J. L. Carr
"Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow."
– Dan Millman
"I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves."
– Ann Drake
"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn!"
– Rainbow Rowell
"The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens the apples, the other turns them to cider."
– Jane Hirshfield
"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him."
– Hal Borland
"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."
- Stanley Horowitz
"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."
- Lauren Destefano
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address."
- Nora Ephron
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
- Sarah Addison Allen
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
- John Burroughs
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."
- Emily Brontë
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
- George Eliot
"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar."
- Delia Owens
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus
"The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go."
- Unknown
"Autumn... the year's last, loveliest smile."
- William Cullen Bryant
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye."
- Unknown
"Wild is the music of autumnal winds/Amongst the faded woods."
— William Wordsworth
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
— L.M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Autumn dresses up in gold; the richest season of the soul.”
— Angie Weiland Crosby
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
— Jim Bishop
"Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all."
— Stanley Horowitz
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."
— Faith Baldwin
"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize."
— George Eliot
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour."
— Victoria Erickson
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
— Henry David Thoreau
"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves..."
— Virginia Woolf
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