Category: writing

Happy October! Who is ready for a great month? Do you plan on sharing public posts on social media? Or maybe you just want to share uplifting messages with family and friends? Quotes are a wonderful way to reflect on the beauty of October. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for October.

• “October is the month that seems all woven with midsummer dreams. She brings for us the golden days that fill the air with smoky haze.” — Evalyn Callahan Shaw
• “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables
• “In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening—no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.” —Alexander Smith
• “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’m blinded by the lights of October skies. These postcard memories evade my eyes.” — Mumford & Sons, “October Skies”
• “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it— the ending and beginning of things” — Jacqueline Woodson
• “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter” — Nova Beir
• “My beloved October has returned—with its brilliant colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year.” — Peggy Toney Horton
• “I want the end of my life to be like the end of this day by the October sea, as pale yellow cumulus clouds spread toward the west reflecting the setting sun.” — Beverly Finney
• “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” —Carol Bishop Hipps
• “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” —W.S. Merwin
• “You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” — Katherine Arden
• “October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again.” — Hal Borlan, This Hill, This Valley
• “I should be over it, now I know. It doesn’t matter much how old I grow. I hate to see October go.” — Barry Manilow, “When October Goes”
• “October had the tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” — Sarah Guillory
• “Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” — Avijeet Das
• “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” — Virginia Woolf
• “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet
• “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” —Leif Enger
• “October is the month for painted leaves…. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “In October, my heart is filled with love and the beauty of fall.” — Unknown
• “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 once loved your grace and the innocence that fell from you like leaves spiral off October trees. You know I love you, what else do you want from me?” —Ron Pope, “October Trees”
• “The October air filled with corn dust enough to make each sunset a postcard, with colors like a benign nuclear explosion.” — Nickolas Butler
• “In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” — John Burroughs
• “October is my favorite month because it’s when the weather finally stops being so clingy.” — Unknown
• “After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth…The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her.” —Elizabeth George Speare
• “Farewell, October! You’ve been a month of magic and transformation.” — Unknown
• “As the leaves change, let’s embrace new challenges and opportunities at work.” — Unknown
• “It’s October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people.” — Billy-Ray Belcourt
• “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.” — Angela Carter
• “Well, I’m-a going back down, maybe one more time. Deep down home, October road.” —James Taylor, “October Road”
• “I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” — Charmaine J. Forde
• “The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” —Florence Bone
• “Yet, I can face the winter with calm. I suppose I had forgotten what it was really like. I had been thinking of the winter as a horrid wet, dreary time fit only for professional football. Now I can see other things—crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…” —A.A. Milne, “A Word for Autumn”
• “October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” — John Sinor
• “What could be more exciting than an October day? It’s your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.” — Peggy Toney Horton
• “The trees are in their autumn beauty / The woodland paths are dry / Under the October twilight the water / Mirrors a still sky.” – William Butler Yeats
• “As October ends, the leaves remind us how beautiful it is to let go.” — Unknown
• “As October fades away, let’s cherish the moments we had and look forward to November.” — Unknown
• “As October fades away, let’s cherish the moments we had and look forward to November.” — Unknown
• “We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.” — Mark Perlberg

Happy October!