Autumn! The season when green leaves turn gold, orange, and red; when they drift from the branches of trees down to cover the ground with a mantle of multicolored layers crispy to the step. The time of harvest, of pumpkins, of plaid shirts, and nights cooler and more extended. The season between summer and winter. Most of all, it’s the season of Halloween and Thanksgiving!
Traditionally, Fall starts on Labor Day, the last day of summer, and ends at around Thanksgiving, when the Christmas shopping season begins. It also marks the start of a new school year, “Back-to-school” sales, and such.
Fall is time for sweet thick hot chocolate in the mornings; campfires, toasted marshmallows and s’ mores in the evenings. It is a time for enjoying apples, plain or glazed with syrup and honey. Delicious pumpkin pies, candy pumpkins, caramel corn, and Halloween cakes are there for the taking and the eating.
Autumn is harvest season and familiar sights like rolls of baled hay or straw, scarecrows, and produce dot the vast farmlands of the continental United States. You may have seen autumn depictions in the form of healthy, pretty young maidens decked with fruits, grains, and vegetables common during the harvest season. That is proof that seasons like autumn or Fall have such a significant influence on people that we personify them so.
Fall is full of occasions and events. It also influences Sports activities like football, starting in autumn, with the National Football League (NFL) kicking off its season playoffs. Major League Baseball holds its World Series games in autumn, as Major League Soccer with their tournaments. Even the major TV networks start their regular season in autumn, featuring new series and new episodes of current shows.
Of course, other occasions are of a more solemn yet significant nature such as All Saint’s Day and All Souls Day, when we commemorate our loved ones who passed on and are now at peace.
Fall also affects fashion and the dressing habits of people, with the fresh whites and short light garments replaced by thick long warm sweaters, pull-overs, jackets, windbreakers, cardigans, hoodies, bright-colored scarves, and various kinds of headgear. Footwear like slippers, flip-flops, sandals, flats, etc. make way for boots, mules, loafers, pumps, sneakers, and other covered shoes.
Fall conveys varying emotions and feelings for different people. A few individuals feel autumn represents somber, melancholic moods as the warmth and brightness of summer slowly transform into the cold and darkness of winter.
However, most people see Fall as the most colorful season, with artists comparing it to a mosaic. More importantly, Fall represents bounty, richness, abundance, prosperity, and content. It is no wonder Thanksgiving is celebrated during Fall, as we are given a chance to appreciate the riches given to us by nature and providence.
A very apt symbolism of autumn is the actual shedding of leaves of a tree. Many people see that as a renewal of sorts, a time to shed your old, be at peace with yourself, then re-emerge as a new person with the coming of spring.
We have prepared a compendium of the most inspirational Fall quotes that would surely warm your hearts throughout the season and beyond.
Fall Quotes
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.
George Eliot
And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.
Oscar Wilde
Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.
Terri Guillemets
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
I saw old autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Thomas Hood
Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
Shira Tamir
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler
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
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
Chad Sugg
Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.
Unknown
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz
Autumn’s the mellow time.
William Allingham
If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
Victoria Erickson
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Brontë
Autumn quotes about its beauty
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
Jim Bishop
I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.
Lee Maynard
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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 Shelley
Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.
John Howard Bryant
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise.
George Eliot
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.
Sharon Kay Penman
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
M. Montgomery
And when you take something like the changing colour of autumn leaves and start to ask why; you’re starting off on an intellectual journey which will take you beyond that moment of visual satisfaction while robbing nothing from that experience.
Alice Roberts
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
The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
John Greenleaf Whittier
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sarah Addison Allen
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs
The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.
Shauna Niequist
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
Joe Wheeler
The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
J.K. Rowling
October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Nova Blair
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
Yoko Ono
Autumn quotes about changes
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…
Virginia Woolf
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
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
J.K. Rowling
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
Chad Sugg
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Truman Capote
The heat of autumn / is different from the heat of summer / One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
Jane Hirshfield
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
The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.
Enya
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
Shira Tamir
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! O teakettle! O grace!
Rainbow Rowell
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, / We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!
Rusty Fischer
Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home. Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year.
Henry Rollins
And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.
Racquel Franco
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
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.
Unknown
Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself.
Shauna Niequist
Autumn quotes to inspire love
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 cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.
Ann Drake
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
Diana Gabaldon
Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.
Robert Browning
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! O teakettle! O grace!
Rainbow Rowell
I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.
Lee Maynard
There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.
Christopher Waltz
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. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age.
Lin Yutang
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
Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire.
Shauna Niequist
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.
Yasmin Mogahed
Fun autumn quotes
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 is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler
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
October Country…That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay.
Ray Bradbury
If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
Victoria Erickson
I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.
Wendy Delsol
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
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
Hal Borland
Autumn quotes to motivate you
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 tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
John Greenleaf Whittier
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Sharon Kay Penman
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
Jim Bishop
Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.
William Wordsworth
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
Hal Borland
Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.
Terri Guillemets
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.
B.C. Forbes
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence
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
How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!
John Burroughs
Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.
Elizabeth Cohen
My favorite color is October.
Unknown
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of the time.
Robert Browning
We have prepared a compendium of the most inspirational Fall quotes that would surely warm your hearts throughout the season and beyond.
