50 October Quotes for Instagram
October is a mood, cool mornings, golden afternoons, and a little Halloween magic—so this list spotlights short, shareable quotes that feel like the season itself.
Expect classic literary lines, “Hello October” captions, and cozy fall sayings that fit posts, stories, and letter boards.
Pick a favorite and let October do the rest.
Short October Quotes for Instagram
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L. M. Montgomery
“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
“In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.” — Elizabeth George Speare
“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth…” — Elizabeth George Speare
“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.” — Angela Carter
“October had tremendous possibility… the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures.” — Sarah Guillory
“October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” — Keith Donohue
“It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” — Charmaine J. Forde
“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” — Charmaine J. Forde
“Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“O hushed October morning mild, begin the hours of this day slow; make the day seem to us less brief.” — Robert Frost
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.” — Hal Borland
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup.” — Rainbow Rowell
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” — Leif Enger
“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her…” — Bliss Carman
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” — Nelson Algren
“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” — Ray Bradbury
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page did not end the tale.” — Neil Gaiman
“In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp.” — John Burroughs
“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” — Florence Bone
“October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store.” — Paul Laurence Dunbar
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” — W. S. Merwin
“October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…” — John Nichols
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova Bair
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” — John Sinor
“Then summer fades and passes, and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unsuspected sharpness…” — Thomas Wolfe
“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias… October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her…” — Christina G. Rossetti
“Fresh October brings the pheasant; then to gather nuts is pleasant.” — Sara Coleridge
“My ornaments are fruits; my garments leaves…” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The mug of cider simmered slow… with nuts from brown October’s wood.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“O suns and skies and flowers of June… Love loveth best of all the year October’s bright blue weather.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“It was October again… a glorious October, all red and gold…” — L. M. Montgomery
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” — Peggy Toney Horton
“The leaves are falling all around,— reluctant, waveringly they fall!…” — Caroline E. Richardson
“October sun — soul-stirring October air — wood-burning October quiet…” — Terri Guillemets
“October breathed poetry — beautiful and glowing.” — Terri Guillemets
“Warm October breeze billows the sails of autumn, floating summer’s freight.” — Cave Outlaw
“October is fresh-faced April beautifully aged to wisdom.” — Terri Guillemets
“October round her snowy neck Bright Nightshade berries hung…” — James Rigg
“Ripe are October’s glories: Come away!” — James Rigg
“The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…” — A. A. Milne
“October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” — Avijeet Das
“‘Only today,’ he said, ‘today, in October sun, it’s all gold—sky and tree and water.’” — Eudora Welty
“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things.” — Jacqueline Woodson
“October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing wind…” — Jaime Allison Parker
“We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice…” — Mark Perlberg
“A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.” — Nitya Prakash
