Autumn Quotes for a Brighter Mood

Autumn, or fall, is one of the four seasons marked by cooler temperatures and shorter days. Leaves change colors, turning yellow, orange, and red before falling. It begins in September in the Northern Hemisphere and March in the Southern. Autumn is celebrated with events like Halloween and Thanksgiving, and outdoor activities such as apple picking and hiking.

Autumn Quotes

1. “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

2. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg

3. “Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown

4. “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

5. “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”
– Siobhan Vivian

6. “The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head… The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun.”
– Steve Sabol

7. “The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing.”
– Thomas Hood

8. “Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.”
– Unknown

9. “What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern? A pumpkin patch.”
– Unknown

10. “If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.”
– George Eliot

11. “For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
– Hal Borland

12. “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir

13. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

14. “Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer

15. “Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker

16. “Oh my gourd, we’ve got plenty!”
– Unknown

17. “It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.”
– Robbie Coltrane

18. “My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown

19. “Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
– Robert Browning

20. “Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.”
– Unknown

21. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

22. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

23. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield

24. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
– Nova Bair

25. “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith

26. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Bronte

27. “If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.”
– Laura Jaworski

28. “Oh your sweet disposition
And my wide-eyed gaze
We’re singing in the car getting lost upstate
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place
And I can picture it after all these days.”
– Taylor Swift

29. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde

30. “Float down
Like autumn leaves
And hush now
Close your eyes
Before the sleep.”
– Ed Sheeran

31. “Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few. September, November And these few precious days I’ll spend with you.”
– Frank Sinatra

32. “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

33. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

34. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
– John Donne

35. “Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence

36. “I’m still in love with you, I want to see you dance again. Because I’m still in love with you on this harvest moon.”
– Neil Young

37. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens

38. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…”
– Virginia Woolf

39. “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

40. “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
– Charlotte Bates

41. “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– George Burns

42. “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps

43. “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

44. “I’ll just end up walkin’ in the cold November rain.”
– Guns N’ Roses

45. “And the sunsets of autumn—are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry?”
– Charles Lanman

46. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant

47. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”
– Yoko Ono

48. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

49. “I saw old autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.”
– Thomas Hood

50. “Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

51. “Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like spring. I feel like a warm red autumn.”
– Marilyn Monroe

52. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery

53. “Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”
– Terri Guillemets

54. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson

55. “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

56. “When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

57. “I come alive in the fall time.”
– The Weeknd

58. “I come by light of an autumn moon.”
– Broken Bells

59. “But now it’s time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way.”
– Led Zeppelin

60. “Autumn’s the mellow time.”
– William Allingham

61. “Go big or gourd home.”
– Unknown

62. “In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

63. “Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”
– Unknown

64. “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”
– Frank Sinatra

65. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J. K. Rowling

66. “Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn — that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness — that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”
– Jane Austen

67. “The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn . . . spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end . . . earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.”
– Monica Baldwin

68. “It was October again … a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain — amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.”
– L.M. Montgomery

69. “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

70. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … 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