There are hundreds of beautiful autumn quotes out there: things that have been said, written, or composed over the years celebrating the beauty of autumn. As the air becomes chilled and the leaves turn the neir golden hues, there’s nothing quite so inspiring as the perfect fall quote to fill you with cozy anticipation for autumn.
Here, I’ve collected some of my all time favorite quotes about fall. Some are literary quotes about autumn, some are contemporary fall sayings, some are quotes about leaves falling, quotes about October, quotes about fall colors, but every word is about the magic of autumn. Read on to find your new favorite fall sayings and magical autumn quotes!
9 Of The Most Beautiful Quotes About Autumn🍂
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon. - Sarah Addison Allen
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of 1st September was crisp and golden as an apple. - J.K Rowling.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. - L.M Montgomery
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. - Jim Bishop
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. - Joe L Wheeler
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau
Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile. - John Howard Bryant
Short Fall Autumn Quotes
Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer. – Terri Guillemets
If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air. — Laura Jaworski
Only lovers see the fall, a signal end to endings. – Maya Angelou
She loved the fall, all the sun-faded colors of summer repainted by vivid reds and golds. – Naomi Ragen
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. — Chad Sugg
Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat! – Rusty Fischer
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves… — Virginia Woolf
It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’. — Robbie Coltrane
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. – George Burns
And I rose / In rainy autumn / And walked abroad in a shower of all my days… — Dylan Thomas
The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves. – Charlotte Bates
Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. – Doug Larson
Beautiful Fall Autumn Quotes
Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake. - Mehmet Murat Idles
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it. - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves. - Ann Drake
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise. - George Eliot
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
Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings. - Terri Guillemets
The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. - Ray Bradbury
But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze. - Victoria Logue
Wild is the music of autumnal winds. Amongst the faded woods. - William Wordsworth
More Quotes About Autumn Fall
Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. - John Howard Bryant
And all at once, summer collapsed into fall. - Oscar Wilde Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. - Emily Bronte
If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour. - Victoria Erickson
And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened. - Raquel Franco
Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace. - French Proverb
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. - Rumi
Everyone must take the time to sit and watch the leaves turn. - Elizabeth Lawrence
It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves! - Winnie the Pooh
Autumn leaves are falling down like pieces into place. - Taylor Swift
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. - Truman Capote
Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him. - Hal Borland
Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days. - Will Carleton
Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile. - William Cullen Bryant