50 Inspiring Quotes About Fall to Warm Your Soul This Autumn

### Embrace the Beauty and Wisdom of Autumn Fall is a season of transformation, reflection, and cozy moments. Our curated collection of inspiring quotes about fall captures the essence of this magical time when leaves turn golden, the air turns crisp, and nature prepares for rest. From timeless literary voices like Emily Brontë and F. Scott Fitzgerald to modern musings by Taylor Swift and Angie Weiland-Crosby, these quotes celebrate the beauty, change, and inspiration that autumn brings. ### A Season of Letting Go and New Beginnings Discover how autumn teaches us to let go gracefully, just as leaves fall and nourish the earth. These quotes remind us that fall is not just an end but also a beginning—a chance to refresh, reflect, and find gratitude. Whether you seek motivation, comfort, or a poetic perspective on the season, this collection offers something for every autumn lover. ### Perfect for Sharing and Reflection Use these quotes to inspire your own autumn moments, decorate your space, or share with friends and family. Let the words of great thinkers and artists deepen your appreciation for fall’s unique charm and soulful beauty.

Wisdom from the Masters

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower, and every pumpkin a lantern."

- Albert Camus

Nature

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

- Albert Camus

Change

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

- Samuel Butler

Nature

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

- Shira Tamir

Nature

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

- Delia Owens

Aspirations

"I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it."

- Lee Maynard

Gratitude

"Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile."

- William Cullen Bryant

Nature

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Creativity

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

- Emily Brontë

Nature

"The falling leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of red and gold."

- Johnny Mercer

Nature

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

New Beginnings

"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

Nature

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

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

Resilience

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

- John Burroughs

Reflection

"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

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn."

- John Muir

Peace

"Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn."

- Dan Millman

Change

"Autumn, it carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons."

- Jim Bishop

Nature

"Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow."

- Dan Millman

Change

"Another fall, another turned page."

- Wallace Stegner

New Beginnings

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."

- Elizabeth Lawrence

Reflection

"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."

- Rumi

Love

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

- L.M. Montgomery

Gratitude

"The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground."

- Andrea Gibson

Nature

"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

New Beginnings

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

- Jim Bishop

Gratitude

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

- John Burroughs

Nature

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me / Fluttering from the autumn tree."

- Emily Bronte

Joy

"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!"

- Rainbow Rowell

Joy

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

- Hal Borland

Reflection

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

- Faith Baldwin

Nature

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

- Oscar Wilde

Change

"Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it."

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nature

"Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings."

- Terri Guillemets

Nature

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."

- Thomas Hood

Reflection

"Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves."

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Contentment

"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

Reflection

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

- L.M. Montgomery

Joy

"I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

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

- John Donne

Nature

"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."

- Truman Capote

New Beginnings

"She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened."

- Sarah Addison Allen

Nature

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

- Winston Graham

Nature

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

- Raquel Franco

Nature

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

Imagination

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

- Jane Hirshfield

Nature

"Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days."

- Taylor Swift

Reflection

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

- Victoria Erickson

Philosophy

"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

Love

"Since you went away the days grow long / And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song / But I miss you most of all my darling / When autumn leaves start to fall."

- Nat King Cole

Love

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

- George Eliot

Reflection

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

- Charlotte Bates

Nature

"I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers."

- Leif Enger

Reflection

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

- Jane Hirshfield

Change

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

- Ann Drake

Nature

"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

Happiness

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the top of a leaf."

- Rabindranath Tagore

Inspiration

"Autumn is the hush before winter."

- French Proverb

Philosophy

"The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air."

- Laura Jaworski

Inspiration

"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

"It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."

- Diana Gabaldon

Awareness

"Falling in love with October, leaves descending to the ground, orange, magenta, green and brown. The cool, crisp breezes in the air—autumn season must be here."

- Charmaine J. Forde

Love

"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

Joy

"I am falling in love again with autumn, the smell of warm cider, the orange-color leaves, pumpkins everywhere and the crisp breeze."

- Charmaine J. Forde

Love

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

- Stanley Horowitz

Creativity

"be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again."

- Ruth Ahmed

New Beginnings

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Motivation

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

- Sarah Addison Allen

Nature

"He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Imagination

"It’s autumn in New York / That brings the promise of new love / Autumn in New York / Is often mingled with pain."

- Ella Fitzgerald

Love

"Fall is here, hear the yell."

- The White Stripes

Joy

"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

Joy

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Autumn is a time to slow down and savor life’s simple pleasures."

Mindfulness

"Autumn is the season to release what no longer serves you."

- Unknown

Self-improvement

"Autumn is the season to gather memories and create new ones."

- Unknown

Personal Growth

"Autumn is a season of transformation; let it inspire you."

- Unknown

Transformation

"Autumn is the season of cozy sweaters and warm hearts."

- Unknown

Happiness

"Autumn is the season of gratitude."

- Unknown

Gratitude

"Autumn is the season of endings and beginnings."

- Unknown

New Beginnings

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."

Reflection

"There are two times of the year: autumn and waiting for autumn."

Aspirations