The official first day of Autumn is almost here! Are you ready for the changing leaves and cooler temperatures? If you are searching for the right words to add to your social media posts, check out the following quotes for autumn.
- “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant
- “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
- “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.” – William Cullen Bryant
- “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
- “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” – Unknown
- “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” – George Eliot
- “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” – Victoria Erickson
- “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J.K. Rowling
- “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
- “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen
- “I loved autumn, the one 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
- “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
- “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
- “Go, sit upon the lofty hill, and turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves / We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
- “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
- “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” – Unknown
- “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf
- “If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.” — Kyle Lake
- Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?” — L.M. Montgomery
- “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.” — Walt Whitman
- “The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
- “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont
- “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
- “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens
- “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham
- “And I rose / In rainy autumn / And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” — Dylan Thomas
- “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
- “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield
- “It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” — P.D. James
- “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
- “Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
- “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” — Joe L. Wheeler
- “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”– Ann Drake
- “Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
- “Autumn dresses up in gold; the richest season of the soul.”— Angie Weiland Crosby
Happy Autumn!
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