Fall is one of the most beautiful times of the year. The leaves on the trees turn from green to vibrant hues of yellow, orange and red, the air becomes cool and crisp, and everything seems to be more quiet and reflective. For many of us, fall also brings a sense of melancholy and nostalgia as we reflect on all that has happened in the past year and all that we will soon leave behind.
While it’s a time for harvesting fruits and vegetables from our gardens, enjoying the cooler weather with brisk walks in nature, gathering around a cozy bonfire, or warming up with a hot apple cider, it’s also a season associated with endings and change.
As we enjoy our favorite things fall has to offer, let’s also take a moment to appreciate some wonderful quotes and images that reflect the season’s special magic. From moody and melancholy to soul-soothing happiness, these fall quotes capture all that is wonderful about autumn and may even make you see autumn in a whole new light. Whether you’re a homesteader like me preparing for winter or simply someone who appreciates the changing seasons, please enjoy this collection of 95+ fall quotes and images that capture the beauty and melancholy of autumn.
I’ve combined a huge list of my favorite fall quotes with stunning images to fill your heart and soul with warmth and emotion. These fall quotes are perfect for sharing on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram. They make great additions to your fall aesthetic mood boards or wallpaper as well.
Jump to your favorite category or scroll through this page to find the best fall quotes for your mood or aesthetic.
Fall Quotes About October
1.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
2.
Humbert Wolfe
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.”
3.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.”
4.
Ken Weber
“October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.”
5.
Alexander Smith
“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.”
6.
Bonaro W. Overstreet
“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”
7.
Nova S. Blair
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
8.
Angela Carter
“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
9.
Elizabeth George Speare
“In October any wonderful, unexpected thing might be possible.”
10.
John Sinor
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.”
Fall Quotes About Change/Inspirational
11.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”
12.
Unknown
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
13.
Unknown
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.”
15.
Dan Millman
“Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.”
17.
Delia Owens
“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
18.
“Summer said in shades of blue, ‘Let me be young a few days more.’ ‘Walk forward,’ Autumn whispered. ‘There’s a colorful horizon to explore.’”
19.
Chad Sugg
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
20.
Shira Tamir
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
21.
Ruth Ahmed
“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.”
22.
Amit Ray
“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”
24.
Rashedur Ryan Rahman
“Autumn is a momentum of nature’s golden beauty, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life.”
25.
Tony Riches
“Autumn is the time of balance and of sacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a time when the night takes over and brings the coming winter. The ancient wisdom says that those who long for light must face their inner darkness and overcome it.”
26.
Paulo Coelho
“There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves.”
Fall Quotes About Love
27.
“You are the magic that autumn blew forth, a seasoned love to rain light evermore.”
28.
Johnny Mercer, Autumn Leaves
“But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”
30.
“She fell into an autumn romance, her soul a harvest moon glowing to his vintage slow dance.”
32.
Nicole Krauss
“She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, they parted with leaves in their hair.”
33.
Lauren DeStefano
“Eventually, I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”
34.
Kerri Maniscalco
“You are my heart, my soul, my equal. You see the light in me when I’m lost within darkness. When I’m cold and distant, you’re as warm as autumn sunshine, bathing me in your glow. If I am the night, then you are the stars lighting up my endless dark.”
Melancholy, Moody and Nostalgic Fall Quotes
35.
George Eliot, Letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.”
36.
Dodinsky
“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.”
37.
John Burroughs
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
38.
Oscar Wilde
“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
40.
Unknown
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
41.
Lauren DeStefano
“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.”
42.
Joe L. Wheeler
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
43.
J. L. Carr
“The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.”
45.
Rudolfo Anaya
“There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow.”
46.
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.”
48.
Charlotte Fiske Bates, Woodbines in October, 1879
“As dyed in blood, the streaming vines appear, While long and low the wind about them grieves; The heart of Autumn must have broken here And poured its treasure out upon the leaves.”
50.
The Manchester Guardian Archives, November 11, 1840
“The winds of autumn teach us that decay is the fate of all mankind.”
51.
Gustave Flaubert
“I love the autumn—that melancholy season that suits memories so well.”
52.
William Cullen Bryant
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
53.
Nikita Gill
“As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death, too, can be a beautiful thing.”
54.
Robert Frost
“My sorrow, when she’s here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane.”
The Best Fall Quotes for the Soul
55.
George Eliot, Letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841
“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.”
56.
Winnie the Pooh
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
57.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
58.
Emily Brontë
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.”
59.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
60.
Raquel Franco
“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened.”
61.
Victoria Erickson
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
63.
Elizabeth Lawrence
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
64.
John Donne
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
65.
“Autumn is a painting come undone. She moves past her canvas, leaves falling as she runs.”
66.
Stanley Horowitz
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
67.
Sharon Kay Penman
“Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies.”
69.
William Wordsworth
“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.”
70.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
71.
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
73.
Hazelmarie Mattie Elliott
“I see the turning of a leaf dancing in an autumn sun, and brilliant shades of crimson glowing when the day is done.”
74.
Hal Borland
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
75.
Faith Baldwin
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
77.
Naomi Ragen
“She loved the fall, all the sun-faded colors of summer repainted by vivid reds and golds still clinging fragilely to branches that would soon be covered with snow.”
78.
“Happiness is a crackling fire, a cozy book, a cup of hot cocoa, and an autumnal nook.”
79.
P.D. James
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
80.
Unknown
“Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling.”
82.
Stephen King, Salem’s Lot
“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 awhile 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.”
83.
Vincent van Gogh
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
85.
Henry David Thoreau
“I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.”
86.
Mary Russell Mitford
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
87.
“Autumn was ripening, and the forest grew crisp. So deep my soul ventured, I returned with her scent.”
88.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
89.
Laura Jaworski
“In her finest gold-tipped pen, Nature writes the poem of autumn upon the earth.”
91.
Marilyn Monroe
“Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.”
92.
“I wandered with dear Autumn as far as I could go, and in the end, I didn’t leave. I kept her in my soul.”
93.
Lin Yutang
“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death.”
94.
Henry Beston
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
95.
Malcolm Lowry
“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.”
96.
Karen Gibbs
“Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life.”
97.
Andrea Gibson
“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”
Conclusion
Fall is a time of change – it’s a season that brings with it both melancholy and beauty. These fall quotes perfectly capture the essence of autumn, making us all fall in love with this wonderful season all over again.
Fall is a time to be grateful for all we have been given and to enjoy nature’s beauty at its peak. So take some time to relax outdoors during this lovely season – go for walks in the woods, listen to the crunch of leaves under your feet, drink warm apple cider by a bonfire… Fall truly is special!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this collection as much as I have. Is there a particular fall quote that really resonates with you? What’s your favorite thing about fall? Let me know in the comments below – I’d love to hear from you!
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