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The official start of Autumn is almost here! The season brings beautiful foliage, football, cider, pumpkin spice, and much more. Posting fall quotes is a wonderful way to celebrate everything the season has to offer. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes to celebrate Autumn.

1. “I sit beside the fire and think / Of all that I have seen / Of meadow flowers and butterflies / In summers that have been / Of yellow leaves and gossamer / In autumns that there were / With morning mist and silver sun / And wind upon my hair.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
2. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant
3. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” –  L.M. Montgomery
4. “The weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.” – Unknown
5. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
6. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau
7. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg
8. “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
9. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” –  George Eliot
10. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
11. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”  – William Cullen Bryant
12. “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”  – Unknown
13. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
14. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
15. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”  – Victoria Erickson
16. “The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” — Henry Beston
17. “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard
18. “Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.” – J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
19. “Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning
20. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J. K. Rowling
21. “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
22. “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, Pooh’s Grand Adventure
23. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
24. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
25. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
26. “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
27. “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves / We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
28. “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
29. “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
30. “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” –  Unknown
31. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf
32. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” — Joe L. Wheeler
33. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”– Ann Drake
34. “Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
35. “Autumn dresses up in gold; the richest season of the soul.”— Angie Weiland Crosby
36. “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
37. “Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?” — L.M. Montgomery
38. “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.” — Walt Whitman
39. “The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
40. “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont
41. “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
42. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens
43. “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham
44. “And I rose / In rainy autumn / And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” — Dylan Thomas
45. “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
46. “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, Same Difference
47. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield
48. “It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” — P.D. James
49. “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
50. “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
51. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
52. “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
53. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. 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 Mountains of California
54. “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” — J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Have a wonderful Autumn season!