Quotes About Autumn

The season of color and coolness

The last throes of summer ended last month and we are now firmly in autumn — the season that will usher in the holidays. These quotes are a celebration of the changes that the fall brings, and all there is to love about this time of year.

1. “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

2. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” -Delia Owens

3. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” -Jane Hirshfield

4. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” -Albert Camus

5. “There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow.” -Rudolfo Anaya

6. “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 7. “It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” -Diana Gabaldon

8. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize.” -George Eliot

9. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” -John Donne

10. “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” -Ernest Hemingway

11. “It’s autumn in New York that brings the promise of new love.” -Ella Fitzgerald

12. “Autumn’s the mellow time.” -William Allingham 13. “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

14. “Another fall, another turned page….” -Wallace Stegner 15. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne

16. “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.” -Natalie Cole

17. “There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” -Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. “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

19. “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” -Unknown

20. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.” -Emily Brontë

21. “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

22. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” -Vincent Van Gogh

23. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” -Sylvia Plath

24. “Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.” -Dan Millman

25. “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” -Rémy de Gourmon

26. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

27. “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” -Andrea Gibson

28. “Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” -Hal Borland

29. “A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” -e. e. cummings 30. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” -Ann Drake

31. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” -Friedrich Nietzsche 32. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” -Stanley Horowitz

33. “But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.” -Stephen King

34. “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” -Truman Capote

35. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” -William Cullen Bryant

36. “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

37. “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” -Charlotte Bates 38. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” -Jim Bishop

39. “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

40. “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” -Shira Tamir

41. “Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” -Robert Browning 42. “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” -Faith Baldwin

43. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” -Victoria Erickson 44. “Autumn is springtime in reverse.” -Terri Guillemets

45. “Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.” -William Allingham

46. “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” -Dodie Smith

47. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” -Oscar Wilde

48. “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” -Elizabeth Bowen 49. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” -Raquel Franco 50. “Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.” -Unknown

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