There’s something special about the way the light shines through the leaves.
From pumpkin-spiced-everything to hayrides and haunted houses, there is so much to love about the fall.
But somehow this season of change feels oh-so-familiar.
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Here are some of our favorite fall quotes to remind us of this season’s particular beauty.
Shira Tamir
George Eliot
“Delicious autumn!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Cullen Bryant
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall” – Oscar Wilde.Credit: Southern Living
Percy Shelley
“Is not this a true autumn day?
Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise.”
J.K. Rowling
Yoko Ono
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” – Albert Camus.Credit: Southern Living
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” – Shira Tamir.Credit: Southern Living
Yoko Ono
Lauren DeStefano
“Fall has always been my favorite season.
Truman Capote
Nora Ephron
“Don’t you love New York in the fall?
It makes me want to buy school supplies.
“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.Credit: Southern Living
I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rainbow Rowell
“October, baptize me with leaves!
Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup.
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau.Credit: Southern Living
October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.
Rainbow Rowell
Humbert Wolfe
“Listen!
Joe L. Wheeler
Siobhan Vivian
“Fall colors are funny.
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg.Credit: Southern Living
They’re so bright and intense and beautiful.
Diana Gabaldon
Robert Browning
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
on days like these.”
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz.Credit: Southern Living
Ernest Dowson
Lin Yutang
“I like spring, but it is too young.
I like summer, but it is too proud.
Lin Yutang
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you.
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And I’m dying to meet the artist.”
Terri Guillemets
Elizabeth Lawrence
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
Elizabeth Lawrence
John Burroughs
“How beautifully leaves grow old!
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” – Emily Brontë.Credit: Southern Living
How full of light and color are their last days!”
John Burroughs
Unknown
“My favorite color is October.”
Unknown
Laura Jaworski
“The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air.”
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Laura Jaworski
Anoushka Tyagi
“Even those fallen leaves dance, on the musical wind cadence.”
Anoushka Tyagi
Mehmet Murat ildan
“Autumn!
The greatest show of all the times!”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald.Credit: Southern Living
One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
Mehmet Murat ildan
Delia Owens
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly.
They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant.Credit: Southern Living
Delia Owens
Ann Drake
“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.
The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”
Dan Millman
J.R.R.
“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.Credit: Southern Living
Charmaine J. Forde
“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.”
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise.” – George Eliot.Credit: Southern Living
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J.K. Rowling.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne.Credit: Southern Living
“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” – Truman Capote.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, / We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” – Joe L. Wheeler.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” – Diana Gabaldon.Credit: Southern Living
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning.Credit: Southern Living
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” – Lee Maynard.Credit: Southern Living
“Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer’s loss Seems little, dear! on days like these.” – Ernest Dowson.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” – Samuel Butler.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“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.Credit: Southern Living
“The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” – John Greenleaf Whittier.Credit: Southern Living
“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” – William Wordsworth.Credit: Southern Living
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” – Terri Guillemets.Credit: Southern Living
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence.Credit: Southern Living
“How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!” – John Burroughs.Credit: Southern Living
“My favorite color is October.” – Unknown.Credit: Southern Living
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