31 Quotes About Autumn

From the changing color of the season to its associated festivities, autumn is a favorite time of year for many. These quotes about autumn will inspire you to embrace the many scents and feelings associated with this time of year.

“Action must be taken at the first signs of disruption or decay, otherwise disaster will follow as ice-bound water follows brief autumn frosts.”

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead had never watched them dancing on a windy day.”

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

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower.”

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

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

“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.”

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”

“Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”

“Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

“For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.”

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

“I see the turning of a leaf dancing in an autumn sun, and brilliant shades of crimson glowing when a day is done.”

“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”

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

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.”

“Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.”

“Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”

“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”

“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather’d up gold, And now he is dying; Old age, begin sighing!”

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”

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

“The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.”

“The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb’d in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.”

“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!”

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods.”

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

Different seasons bring different joys, thoughts, and feelings to individuals in a variety of areas in their life.