65 Short Fall Quotes to Capture Autumn’s Magic
These short fall quotes wrap you in the essence of the season pumpkin spice, amber sunsets, and the rustle of leaves underfoot.
Whether you’re strolling through the park or enjoying a quiet evening, they remind you to slow down and savor the beauty of autumn.
Short Fall Quotes

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
“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…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
“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
“Don’t you love New York in the fall?” — Nora Ephron
“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” — Andrea Gibson
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly.” — Delia Owens
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson
“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.” — Ann Drake
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard
“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“A wind has blown the rain away… I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” — E. E. Cummings
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains.” — Faith Baldwin
“Autumn is the mellower season… we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
“The first breath of autumn was in the air.” — J. L. Carr
“Of the great harvest I myself desired.” — Robert Frost
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.” — George Eliot
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” — Shira Tamir
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself.” — Henry David Thoreau
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova Bair
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough.” — Vincent van Gogh
“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in autumn.” — Mehmet Murat İldan
“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” — Robert Browning
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” — Charlotte Bates
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn.” — Thomas Hood
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants in the Spring, who reaps in the Autumn.” — B. C. Forbes
“The air gold and so clean it quivers.” — Leif Enger
“Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.” — Dan Millman
“Fall has always been my favorite season… the grand finale.” — Lauren DeStefano
“I remember it as October days are always remembered.” — Leif Enger
“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air.” — Terri Guillemets
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont
“Let’s wander where the Wi‑Fi is weak.” — Unknown
“Fall breeze and autumn leaves.” — Unknown
“Sweater weather is better together.” — Unknown
“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.” — Unknown
“My favorite color is October.” — Unknown
“There are two times of the year: autumn and waiting for autumn.” — Unknown
“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.” — Unknown
“The beauty of autumn is that it reminds us that even the most beautiful things have to end.” — Unknown
“And the sun took a step back… and autumn was awakened.” — Raquel Franco
“I come alive in the fall time.” — The Weeknd
“I come by light of an autumn moon.” — Broken Bells
“October, baptize me with leaves!” — Rainbow Rowell
“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area… October.” — Hal Borland
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year.” — J. K. Rowling
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days.” — P. D. James
“Days decrease, and autumn grows.” — Robert Browning
“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day… autumn.” — Jane Austen
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” — Elizabeth Lawrence
“How beautiful the leaves grow old.” — John Burroughs