Quotes About October

Celebrating the month of change

It’s October and now that we’re moving toward the end of the year, it’s time to start thinking about change — from the change of colors of the leaves to the changes we want to make for the rapidly approaching New Year. These quotes are about October and the reasons this month is so special.

1. “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it — the ending and beginning of things.” -Jacqueline Woodson

2. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -L.M. Montgomery

3. “October is the treasure of the year, And all the months pay bounty to her store….” -Paul Laurence Dunbar

4. “October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.” -Hal Borland

5. “October is the month of 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

6. “All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” -Thomas Wolfe

7. “You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” -Katherine Arden

8. “There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.” -William Bliss

9. “In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning, and evening — no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.” -Alexander Smith

10. “The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” -Florence Bone 11. “October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” -John Sinor

12. “The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October….” -A.A. Milne 13. “I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” -Charmaine J. Forde

14. “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” -Leif Enger

15. “There is no season when suck pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne

16. “October was always the least dependable of months…full of ghosts and shadows.” -Joy Fielding

17. “October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master. Leaves, one, two at a time, sidled down through the windless air.” -Elizabeth Enright

18. “October is a fine and dangerous season in America. A wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.” -Thomas Merton

19. “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

20. “The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she’s trying to bloom. Tho she’s resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.” -Kevin Dalton

21. “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” -Carol Bishop Hipps

22. “The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.” -William Butler Yeats

23. “October in scarlet and russet and grey Is hymning of Plenty and wine… How calm is the morn! In high treble the stream Is singing in rambling measure Like a bard all enrapt that would catch on a theme In the mazes of Fancy and pleasure!” -James Rigg

24. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” -Nova Schubert Bair

25. “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” -W.S. Merwin

26. “Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like a leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.” -Peggy Toney Horton

27. “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” -Charmaine J. Forde

28. “In October a maple-tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” -John Burroughs

29. “Sweet October, fill with praise, Rich and glowing as thy days, Every poet’s heartfelt lays.” -Caroline May

30. “From the latter weeks of October to Christmas-eve…is the period during which happiness is in season, which, in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray….” -Thomas De Quincey

31. “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” -Henry Ward Beecher

32. “This tree must be falling for me, as soon as I sat under it, it dropped its leaves. Oh sweet October!” -Charmaine J. Forde

33. “After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth….The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her.” -Elizabeth George Speare

34. “O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” -Helen Hunt Jackson

35. “Listen! The wind is rising, And the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, Now for October eves.” -Humbert Wolfe

36. “October made the leaves on Main Street fit for a crown. They dripped from the trees in jewel-toned shades: yellow and orange and fiery red. The cool wind sent a confetti-cluster of leaves down around us.” -Natalie Lloyd

37. “October approached. Nervously, the monsters eyed the calendar between news reports. Were they scary enough? The bar was getting a little high.” -James Mark Miller

38. “October is a hallelujah! Reverberating in my body year-round….” -John Nichols

39. “My favorite color is October.” -Unknown

40. “It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.” -Melody Lee

41. “The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.” -William Cullen Bryant

42. “It was a late-October Sunday, the leaves tinged with brown, and the air crisp in a way that made you shiver if you stood still too long.” -Joseph Kita

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

44. “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! O teakettle! O grace!” -Rainbow Rowell

45. “October turned my maple’s leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig’s weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers.” -Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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