50 Inspirational Fall Quotes To Enjoy The Season

Finding beauty in the fall season isn’t hard to find, especially with these inspirational fall quotes to guide you. 

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Here you’ll find delicious autumn quotes helping you appreciate the fall season showcasing crisp air and brilliant red, orange and yellow leaves. 

You’ll find reasons to see that the heart of autumn is a time of year for positive change, slowing down, and practicing gratitude for the abundance you’ve experienced.

Crisp autumn mornings, pumpkin pie, shorter days, gusty wind, cozy blankets, apple picking and all the pleasure that goes with it.

Here’s to the beauty and spectacular grace that autumn holds.

Many of these fall quotes are from books, poetry, filmmakers and writers. 

Make sure to share your favourite fall quote at the end of this post in the comments.

How To Use These Inspiring Fall Quotes

  • Use them as fall captions for Instagram or Facebook
  • Write a quote each day in your daily planner
  • Read them with your morning coffee
  • Try brush lettering them into your bullet journal
  • Write them on a card and use them for your Thanksgiving table
  • Frame it! Create a graphic using Canva – then print out and frame to add to your fall decor.

50 Inspirational Fall Quotes To Help You See Beauty All Around

50 inspiring fall quotes to enjoy the season

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

2. “And I rose in rainy autumn and walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” – Dylan Thomas

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

4. “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” – Winnie The Pooh

5. October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. – Nova S. Blair

6. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin and the crisp burnt leaves.”

– Ann Drake

7. “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

8. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” Vincent Van Gogh

9. “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

Victoria Erikson Fall Quote

10. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” – Victoria Erikson

11. “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

12. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … 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

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

– Raquel Franco

14. “I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.” – Henry David Thoreau

15. Autumn is “that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling” – Jane Austen.

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

Inspiring Fall quote by Oscar Wilde

17. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde

18. “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” – Truman Capote

19. “Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” – Robert Browning

20. “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burroughs

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

Inspiring Fall quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

23. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” – Joe L Wheeler 

24. “For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ’s birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer.” – Ray Bradbury

25. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”

– Yoko Ono

26. “Rain on roof outside window, gray light, deep covers and warm blankets. Rain and nip of autumn in air; nostalgia, itch to work better and bigger. That crisp edge of autumn.” – Sylvia Plath

27. “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”- Walt Whitman

Inspiring Fall Quote by William Wordsworth

28. “Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”- William Wordsworth

29. “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

32. I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it. – Lee Maynard

33. “It was November–the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.” – L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

34. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

35. “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

36. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Autumn Quotes About New Beginnings

37. “Just before the death of flowers, and before they are buried in snow, there comes a festival season when nature is aglow.” – Unknown

fall quote by Maria Lago

38. “We all change colors and lose our leaves… then we bloom again.” – Maria Lago

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

40. “Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves change.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

41. “There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow.” – Rodolfo Anaya

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

– Stanley Horowitz

43. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

44. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus

45. A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye. – Unknown

Cute Fall Quotes

Inspirational Fall Quote by L.M. Montgomery

46. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M Montgomery

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

48. The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. – Henry Beston

49. Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat! – Unknown

50. “September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

What Inspirational Fall Quotes Are Your Favourite?!

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

    Amazing post🤎🍂

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