50+ Inspiring October Quotes to Embrace the Beauty of Autumn

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"October is the month for painted leaves…. 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

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."

- Elizabeth Lawrence

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

- Humbert Wolfe

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- George Eliot

"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all."

- Thomas Merton

"October teaches us the art of letting go, of releasing with grace."

- Sarah Jio

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

- John Burroughs

"This is October for me. Withdrawing into my own world, blocking out everything except the beauty of the season, my reflections, and my relationship with God, I find that this is enough to sustain me through the long cold winter, and beyond…"

- Peggy Toney Horton

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

- Delia Owens

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

- William Cullen Bryant

"In the entire circle of the year, there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October."

- Alexander Smith

"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

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

- Albert Camus

"October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again."

- Hal Borland

"He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things."

- Jacqueline Woodson

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"My beloved October has returned—with its brilliant colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year."

- Peggy Toney Horton

"Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful."

- Avijeet Das

"October is the treasure of the year."

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Autumn whispered to the wind, 'I fall; but always rise again.'"

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

"October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all."

- Robert Frost

"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

"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 twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers."

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The morns are meeker than they were, the nuts are getting brown, the berry’s cheek is plumper, the rose is out of town."

- Emily Dickinson

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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

"October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round..."

- John Nichols

"October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter."

- Nova Bair

"It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors."

- Charmaine J. Forde

"I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring."

- W. S. Merwin

"October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master."

- Elizabeth Enright

"October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween."

- Keith Donohue

"What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping."

- Carole Maso

"In October a maple-tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp."

- John Burroughs

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

- Jim Bishop

"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."

- Bliss Carman

"October turned my maple's leaves to gold; the most are gone now; here and there one lingers."

- Robert Frost

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

- Virginia Woolf

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

- John Donne

"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him."

- Hal Borland

"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."

- Nathanial Hawthorne

"A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October."

- Nitya Prakash

"The clear light that belongs to October is personality rather than character."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You don't waste October sunshine."

- Katherine Arden

"October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing wind..."

- Jaime Allison Parker

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

- Raquel Franco

"I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October."

- Charmaine J. Forde

"The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant."

- Florence Bone

"October was always the least dependable of months...full of ghosts and shadows."

- Joy Fielding

"October is a symphony of permanence and change."

"The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go."

"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen."