20 Fall Quotes to Inspire You This November
We love fall. Cozy flannels, pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween & Thanksgiving, colorful leaves, baked goods, nighttime bonfires… Sure, it’s sort of more of the same weather-wise in Los Angeles but that doesn’t mean we can’t soak up the season.
It’s arguably the best time of the year. These fall quotes will have you feeling festive in no time. We’ve rounded up the best autumnal quotations from writers, poets, and more!
- “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
- “The heat of autumn / is different from the heat of summer / One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider,” — Jane Hirshfield
- “It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”— Diana Gabaldon
- “But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old
friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.” — Stephen King
5. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau
6. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”— Delia Owens
7. “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
8. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
9. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. “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 Barret Browning
11. “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” — A.A. Milne
12. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
13. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me / Fluttering from the autumn tree.” –— Emily Brontë
14. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” — George Eliot
15. “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” – Leif Enger
16. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. “The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” – Andrea Gibson
18. ”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
19. “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
20. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg
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