33 of the Best Quotes About Autumn

"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 wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!"

– Humbert Wolfe

"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

"It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."

– Diana Gabaldon

"I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers."

– Leif Enger

"The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground."

– Andrea Gibson

"Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves."

– Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

"The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late."

– J. L. Carr

"Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow."

– Dan Millman

"I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves."

– Ann Drake

"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!"

– Rainbow Rowell

"The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens the apples, the other turns them to cider."

– Jane Hirshfield

"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him."

– Hal Borland

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."

- Stanley Horowitz

"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

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”

- Sarah Addison Allen

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

- John Burroughs