48 Short Fall Quotes to Savor the Season
Fall is full of crisp air, changing leaves, cozy drinks, and pumpkin spice what’s not to love?
Whether you’re out for a walk, visiting a pumpkin patch, or just enjoying the view, these fall quotes will match the magic of the season.
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus.
“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.
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” — J.R.R. Tolkien.
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë.
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau.
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs.
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens the apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield.
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” — Vincent Van Gogh.
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens.
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop.
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” — Avijeet Das.
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize…” — George Eliot.
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass… it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.” — Stephen King.
“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. Give me the splendid silent sun.” — Walt Whitman.
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde.
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen.
“Autumn showed us how beautiful it is to let things go.” — Jim Bishop.
“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk…” — Ray Bradbury.
“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant.
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” — Hal Borland.
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Remy de Gourmont.
“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.
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn. Stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” — Thomas Hood.
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson.
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson.
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg.
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono.
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono.
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” — J.K. Rowling.
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova Bai.
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” — Elizabeth Lawrence.
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” — Elizabeth Lawrence.
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.” — Doug Larson.
“The future lies before you, like a field of fallen leaves.” — Unknown
“The smell of autumn is in the air, the air is crisp and the leaves are falling.” — Harold F. Hadley.
“The autumn wind is a pirate, blustering in from sea.” — Steve Sabol.
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley.
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler.
“Autumn is the hush before winter.” — French Proverb .
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time.” — Georgia O’Keeffe.
“Each fallen leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus.
“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” — Alexander Smith.
“October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came…” — George Cooper.
“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn like a fire beneath my feet.” — Malebo Sephodi.