63 Best Fall Quotes to Celebrate the Beauty of Autumn
Welcome fall with these short odes to the season.
The air is crisp, our feet crunch fallen leaves everywhere we wander, and the sky just looks bluer somehow now that fall is in full swing. What better way to celebrate the season than with some seasonal fall quotes.
Perhaps you need a November quote to express your sentiments about that gorgeous pic from your leaf peeping excursion. Or you are looking for a short quote for a fall letter board display (which is such a fun fall porch decorating idea, BTW). Whatever your purpose, you’re sure to find the best autumn sayings here, from short and funny fall quotes (see also, cute fall puns) to literary gems about the beauty of the season.
Just like a good fall movie or a hearty fall soup, these words set the tone for the autumn months. Think Delia Owens's poetic line (“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar”) or Linus’s hilariously wise quip from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (“Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”) Truly, we've gathered all the good ones here. PS—we have a pretty good collection of Thanksgiving quotes too.
Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
Katie Nicole Felton
“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
You’ve Got Mail
“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.”
Unknown
“The weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”
Ernest Dowson, "Autumnal"
“Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer’s loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.”
Ka’ala, @alohakaala
“Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do.”
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Autumn
“Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.”
Jane Hirshfield, The Heat of Autumn
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
George Eliot
"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize."
Virginia Woolf
"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves..."
Winnie the Pooh Pooh's Grand Adventure
"It's the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!"
e.e. cummings
"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."
Wallace Stegner
"Another fall, another turned page..."
Unknown
"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."
Chad Sugg
"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."
Rémy de Gourmon
"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."
J.K. Rowling
"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple."
Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.
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