Quotes About November

Falling into the end of the year

Can you believe it’s already November? I’m always surprised at how fast it comes, but I’m always happy when it does because I love this time of year. These quotes illustrate some of the things there are to love about November.

1. “The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.” -Henry David Thoreau

2. “It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.” -Maggie Stiefvater

3. “In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.” -Martha Gellhorn

4. “In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.” -Cynthia Rylant

5. “Spring’s wakening bugle long is hushed, Long dimm’d is Summer’s splendour; October yields her easel bright To ‘black and white’ November!” -James Rigg

6. “November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.” -Anne Shirley

7. “I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” -Henry Rollins 8. “So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.” -John Clare

9. “But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.” -L.M. Montgomery

10. “This November there seems to be nothing to say.” -Anne Sexton

11. “November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.” -Gladys Taber

12. “How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!” -Edwin Way Teale

13. “November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: The rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has begun to brighten the landscape.” -F. Sionil Jose

14. “Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.” -Gregory F. Lenz

15. “I know that I have died before — once in November.” -Anne Sexton

16. “Fear not November’s challenge bold — We’ve books and friends, And hearths that never can grow cold: These make amends!” -Alexander Louis Fraser

17. “October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.” -Henry David Thoreau

18. “November, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.” -Ambrose Bierce

19. “Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.” -D. H. Lawrence

20. “November always seems to me the Norway of the year.” -Emily Dickinson

21. “The house was very quiet, and the fog — we are in November now — pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” -E.M. Forster

22. “This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts — that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless — perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year.” -Henry David Thoreau

23. “Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.” -Sylvia Plath

24. “It was November — the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.” -L. M. Montgomery

25. “Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.” -Gladys Taber

26. “November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.” -Sir Walter Scott

27. “The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.” -J. Aleksandr Wootton

28. “There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!” -Mehmet Murat ildan

29. “Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.” -Sara Coleridge

30. “November; Crows are approaching — Wounded leaves fall to the ground.” -Kristian Goldmund Aumann

31. “In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” -Cynthia Rylant

32. “November at its best — with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” -Anne Bosworth Greene

33. “November: The last month of autumn, but the beginning of a new adventure; time to take a risk and do the unexpected.” -Unknown

34. “And November sad, — a psalm Tender, trustful, full of balm, Thou must breathe in spirits calm.” -Caroline May

35. “Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.” -Cyril Connolly

36. “Will you forgive me these November days?” -Anna Akhmatova

37. “In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.” -Cynthia Rylant

38. “The quiet of October is refreshing The quiet of November, oppressing.” -Terri Guillemets

39. “November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.” -Jean Hersey

40. “It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in.” -Barbara Pym

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