100 Best Fall Quotes To Perfectly Describe This Special Season
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As summer fades into the sunset, it’s time to celebrate the autumnal equinox. Fall is the season of apples, pumpkin spice, cinnamon swirls, and leaf peeping. Temperatures drop and daylight saving time ends, bringing gentle breezes and cozy nights. Set the tone with your students by sharing some of our favorite fall quotes in the classroom. Use them for inspiration, writing prompts, conversation starters, and more.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. —Virginia Woolf, Selected Works
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, Wither
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all. —Stanley Horowitz
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, Friends O’ Mine
The falling leaf that tells of autumn’s death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. —Robert G. Ingersoll
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it. —Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
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. —Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. —Paulo Coelho, Adultery
September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. —Alice Hoffman, The River King
Dip a slice of bread in batter. That’s September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. —Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret. —Alexander Theroux, Darconville’s Cat
Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters. —Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. —Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Daybook
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on. —Aldo Leopold, The Sand Country of Aldo Leopold
It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. —Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island
In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still. —Cynthia Rylant, In November
November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls. —John Steinbeck, The Shape of a Year
The pumpkin lies yellow, beneath the cold skies, It’s luscious and mellow, and ready for pies. —Walt Mason, “The Pumpkin”
The goldenrod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. —Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”
a wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. i think i too have known autumn too long. —E.E. Cummings, Sonnets—Unrealities V
When noon has past, there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre 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 Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins. —John Updike, A Child’s Calendar
Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! —Humbert Wolfe, “Autumn (Resignation)”
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. —Bliss Carman, “A Vagabond Song”
Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips The days, as though the sunset gates they crowd … —Alice Cary, “Autumn”
Why, it’s the climax of the year,— The highest time of living!— Till naturally its bursting cheer Just melts into thanksgiving. —Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Merry Autumn”
Fall Quotes by Songwriters and Musicians
Because I’m still in love with you / I want to see you dance again / Because I’m still in love with you / On this harvest moon. —Neil Young, “Harvest Moon”
When autumn comes / It doesn’t ask. / It just walks in where it left you last. / And you never know when it starts / Until there’s fog inside the glass around your summer heart. —John Mayer, “Something’s Missing”
And the leaves that are green turn to brown / And they wither with the wind / And they crumble in your hand. —Paul Simon, “Leaves That Are Green”
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days. —Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”
And we both know hearts can change / And it’s hard to hold a candle / In the cold November rain. —Guns n’ Roses, “November Rain”
In this autumn town where the leaves can fall / On either side of the garden wall / We laugh all night to keep the embers glowing. —Iron & Wine, “Autumn Town Leaves”
Autumn in New York / The gleaming rooftops at sundown. / Autumn in New York / It lifts you up when you’re run down. —Vernon Duke, “Autumn in New York”
And you can’t build a house of leaves / And live like it’s an evergreen. / It’s just a season thing / It’s just this thing that seasons do. —John Mayer, “Wheel”
Through the trees comes autumn with her serenade / Melodies the sweetest music ever played. —Mel Tormé, “Autumn Serenade”
Come, ye thankful people, come Raise the song of harvest-home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin. —Henry Alford, Traditional Hymn
More Inspiring Fall Quotes
It’s the first day of autumn! A time for hot chocolatey mornings and toasting marshmallow evenings, and best of all, leaping into leaves! —Winnie the Pooh, Pooh’s Grand Adventure
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. —Joe Fox, You’ve Got Mail
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. —Vincent van Gogh
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. —Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go. —Devendra Banhart
O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again, and I am autumnrifically happy! —Terri Guillemets
October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. —Nova Bair
In the fall / A soft breeze / Through the trees / Turns the leaves / Into fireworks confetti. —Laura Jaworski
I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display. —Michael Caine
I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling? —John Muir
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. —Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son