52 Fall Inspirational Quotes to Embrace Change and Renewal

"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar"

- Delia Owens

"Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it's what the trees do"

- Coolio

"Autumn…the year's last, loveliest smile"

- William Cullen Bryant

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree"

- Emily Brontë

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall"

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again"

- Ruth Ahmed

"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

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"

- Albert Camus

"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see"

- Vincent van Gogh

"Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature"

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day"

- Shira Tamir

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days"

- John Burroughs

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize"

- George Eliot

"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

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year"

- Chad Sugg

"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons"

- Jim Bishop

"If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour"

- Victoria Erickson

"When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in autumn"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves"

- Charlotte Bates

"Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year"

- Mary Russell Mitford

"I love the autumn — that melancholy season that suits memories so well"

- Gustave Flaubert

"I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves"

- Ann Drake

"And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened"

- Raquel Franco

"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

"How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring"

- Edwin Way Teale

"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees"

- Faith Baldwin

"Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence"

- Yoko Ono

"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

"Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods"

- William Wordsworth

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers"

- L.M. Montgomery

"It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon"

- Sarah Addison Allen

"Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection"

- Winston Graham

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all"

- Stanley Horowitz

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house"

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits"

- Samuel Butler

"The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider"

- Jane Hirshfield

"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"

- Humbert Wolfe

"In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures"

- Cynthia Rylant

"Autumn is springtime in reverse"

- Terri Guillemets

"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

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall…"

- Oscar Wilde

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves"

- Virginia Woolf

"Nature's first green is gold"

- Robert Frost

"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"

- Cynthia Rylant

"November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows"

- Clyde Watson

"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end"

- Remy de Gourmont

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn"

- B.C. Forbes

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion"

- Henry David Thoreau

"A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!"

- Marilyn Monroe