57 Most Inspiring Quotes About Autumn

The autumn season is a time of change. The leaves start to change color, there are gusts of cool air, and the temperatures begin to drop. It’s a season that can be both exciting and frightening. Fall is a perfect season for reflection. It’s the ideal time to take time to rest so you can recharge before you start your next journey in life.

Check out the list of most beautiful autumn quotes and share them with your loved ones!

57 Most Inspirational Quote About Autumn

1. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” ~ B.C. Forbes

3. “I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” ~ Lee Maynard

4. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ~ Anne of Green Gables

5. “The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” ~ Henry Beston

6. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~ Albert Camus

7. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ~ Jim Bishop

8. “Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies.” ~ Sharon Kay Penman

9. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves….” ~ Virginia Woolf

10. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” ~ Racquel Franco

11. “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 Bysshe Shelley

12. “Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.” ~ Elizabeth Cohen

13. “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” ~ Remy de Gourmont

14. “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, Stork

15. “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” ~ Lee Maynard

16. “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” ~ Unknown

17. “Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.” ~ Unknown

18. “Autumn is no time to lie alone.” ~ Murasaki Shikibu

19. “No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.” ~ Samuel Johnson

20. “My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.” ~ Robert Frost

21. “Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

22. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” ~ John Howard Bryant

23. “An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining…”― Francis Brett Young

24. “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” ~ Shira Tamir

25. “Autumn’s the mellow time.” ~ William Allingham

26. If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of garden quotes about the power of nature.

27. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” ~ J.K. Rowling

28. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” ~ Samuel Butler

29. “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” ~ Elizabeth Bowen

30. “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

31. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” ~ William Cullen Bryant

32. “She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.” ~ Sarah Addison Allen

33. “Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!” ~ Rusty Fischer

34. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall….” ~ Oscar Wilde

35. “How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!” ~ John Burroughs

36. “I saw old autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” ~ Thomas Hood

37. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” ~ Joe Wheeler

38. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” ~ Stanley Horowitz

39. “I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of the time.” ~ Robert Browning

40. “When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

41. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” ~ John Donne

42. “Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.” ~ Doug Larson

43. “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

44. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” ~ Emily Brontë

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. “Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” ~ Terri Guillemets

47. Autumn killed the summer with the softest kiss. – Unknown

48. “Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” ~ Robert Browning

49. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ~ Chad Sugg

50. “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” ~ John Burroughs

51. “Sometimes I’m the winter tree and most of these times, a gathering of autumn leaves.” ~ Goitsemang Mvula

52. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” ~ Sarah Addison Allen

53. “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” ~ Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

54. “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

55. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

56. “Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don’t remember summer even saying goodbye.” ~ David Mitchell

57. “The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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