These autumn quotes will remind you of the beauty, tranquility, and strangeness that is associated with fall. It is almost everyone’s favorite season for so many reasons. Autumn is when nature plays with all shades of colors – as if it has splashed a paintbrush all around.
The harvest is in, apples are ready to pick, fantasy football is just around the corner, and kids with their parents are preparing for school. Autumn also reminds you of some of the most basic things of life.
When you share these fall sayings with your friends and family, they’ll enjoy them too. Who doesn’t find pleasure in the leaves changing their colors, the paths covered in leaves, and when that cool breeze from the north starts flowing in?
It may remind you of some mysterious distant land of dreams, festivities, and so much more.
Fall Quotes
Days decrease, and autumn grows, autumn in everything.
Robert Browning
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cotton into its winter wools.
Henry Beston
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
Vincent Van Gogh
Leaves Changing Colors
Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life?
Karen Gibbs
In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.
Amit Ray
The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.
Carla Reighard
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence
When an autumn leaf meets a beautiful lake, art reaches beyond the unreachable places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.
Shana Chartier
It follows the summer harvest, ushering in cooler nights and shorter days, enveloping all of Lanark County in a spectacular riot of color. Brilliant hues of yellow, orange, and red exclaim.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
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Leaves Falling
The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.
Andrea Gibson
A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.
Unknown
Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.
Delia Owens
Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
Shira Tamir
A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.
Unknown
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
The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.
Charlotte Bates
Fall Season
Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
My favorite color is October.
Unknown
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
Helen Hunt Jackson
And all at once, summer collapsed into fall…
Oscar Wilde
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
Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.
Elizabeth Cohen
Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling.
Unknown
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
When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose.
Jens Stoltenberg
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
Beauty in Nature
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
Jane Hirshfield
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
Chad Sugg
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sarah Addison Allen
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
Joe L. Wheeler
The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
J.K. Rowling
October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Nova Bair
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it. Lee Maynard
Autumn Quotes
I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.
Unknown
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Bronte
Another fall, another turned page.
Wallace Stegner
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
Jim Bishop
There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
Rémy de Gourmon
September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
The season for enjoying the fullness of life — partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.
Denis Waitley
Autumn Sayings
Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
Hal Borland
I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.
Ann Drake
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.
George Eliot
Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.
Terri Guillemets
Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.
Unknown
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Truman Capote
Inspirational Fall
The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.
Ray Bradbury
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.
George Eliot
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
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Bronte
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
Hal Borland
Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
Virginia Woolf
Magical Fall
If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
Victoria Erickson
Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!
Rusty Fischer
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Yoko Ono
Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Anne of Green Gables
Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.
William Wordsworth
It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!
Winnie the Pooh
Beautiful Fall
The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Bronte
For anyone who lives in the oak-and maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith
And the sunsets of autumn—are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry?
Charles Lanman
See it, smell it, taste it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.
Hal Borland
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and founder of Greeting Card Poet.
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