50 Inspiring Autumn Quotes to Warm Your Soul This Fall

"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

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

- Jim Bishop

"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

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"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

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- William Cullen

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

- Jim Bishop

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

- Emily Brontë

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

- Delia Owens

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."

- Wallace Stegner

"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

"In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow."

- Amit Ray

"But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays a while like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you."

- Stephen King

"October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles."

- Sarah Guillory

"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

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

- Elizabeth Lawrence

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

- Hal Borland

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Chad Sugg

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

- John Burroughs

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

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

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

- Dan Millman

"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

"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

"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

"Another fall, another turned page."

- Wallace Stegner

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

- Elizabeth Lawrence

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

- Shira Tamir

"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

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

- Delia Owens

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

- Samuel Butler

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"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

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

- John Donne

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

- Faith Baldwin

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

- Andrea Gibson

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

- William Cullen Bryant

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

- Ka’ala, @alohakaala

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

- Lee Maynard

"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

"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

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- Humbert Wolfe

"Nature’s first green is gold."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Diana Gabaldon

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

- William Cullen Bryant

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

- William Wordsworth

"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

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit."

- George Eliot

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

- John Burroughs

"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

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Humbert Wolfe

"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

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

- Leif Enger

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

- Dan Millman

"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

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

- Stanley Horowitz

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- John Burroughs

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

- William Cullen Bryant

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

- Cynthia Rylant

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

- Sarah Addison Allen

"The leaves fall, the wind blows and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools."

- Henry Beston

"Autumn writes her poetry, we are merely observers."

- Terri Guillemets

"Autumn. You blush my heart with a beauty that travels through my dreams year round."

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Falling leaves hide the path so quietly."

- John Bailey

"Pumpkins, in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman, and we quoted E.E. Cummings back and forth."

- Roger Ebert

"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July."

- Henry David Thoreau

"His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Johnny Mercer

"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

"Autumn is springtime in reverse."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Samuel Butler

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

- Victoria Erickson

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Happiness is a crackling fire, a cozy book, a cup of hot cocoa, and an autumnal nook."

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Ann Drake

"I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?"

- John Muir

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

- Winston Graham

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer."

- Helen Hunt Jackson

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

- Raquel Franco

"There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy."

- Rainbow Rowell

"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

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

- Jane Hirshfield

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

- Edwin Way Teale

"There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves."

- Avijeet Das

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Nova Bair

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

- Thomas Hood

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

- Jane Hirshfield

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

- Laura Jaworski

"In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give I couldn’t keep on living like this."

- Haruki Murakami

"Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way."

- 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."

- E.E. Cummings

"Even those fallen leaves dance, on the musical wind cadence."

- Anoushka Tyagi

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

- P.D. James

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

- Hal Borland

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

- Humbert Wolfe

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

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Listen… With faint dry sound, like steps of passing ghosts, the leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees and fall."

- Adelaide Crapsey

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

- Victoria Erickson

"The leaves fall patiently; nothing remembers or grieves. The river takes to the sea, the yellow drift of leaves."

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Virginia Woolf

"All things are symbols: the external shows of nature have their image in the mind, as flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures."

- Henry Rollins

"But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Remy de Gourmont

"Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence."

- Yoko Ono

"When the bold branches bid farewell to rainbow leaves—welcome wool sweaters."

- B. Cybrill

"Of the great harvest I myself desired."

- Robert Frost

"That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast."

- John Howard Bryant

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

"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

"November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground."

- Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

- B. C. Forbes

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

- Clyde Watson

"Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends."

- Alexander L. Fraser

"I come alive in the fall time."

- The Weeknd

"We pretended she’d only gotten lost in the colors of fall."

- T. Greenwood

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world."

- John Clare

"The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears."

- Aleksandr Wootton

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

"I am such an Autumn person. Give me a quiet, cozy spot with a simple view of gorgeous trees with colorful leaves on a crisp fall day, fuzzy socks, a warm drink, a good book and I will be in all my glory."

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown