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Fired up for fall?

These fabulous fall quotes are ready to inspire an amazing autumn!

From falling in love to falling leaves, funny fall quotes to inspirational ones, you’ll find everything you need to make fall your favorite season.

Let’s jump in and watch the leaves fly!

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Short Fall Quotes

Short quotes are are perfect to make your own picture quotes online, or when using apps to add text to photos.

Or find a favorite saying to copy-paste and caption your fall photo on Instagram!

I come alive in the fall time.
~ The Weeknd, Starboy

Autumn arose and my soul bloomed.
~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.
~ Oscar Wilde

Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.
~ Winston Graham

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Another fall, another turned page.
~ Wallace Stegner

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

I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.
The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.
~ Ann Drake

Autumn colors my soul in the loveliest shades.
~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

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

Autumn’s the mellow time.
~ William Allingham

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
~ Rémy de Gourmont

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Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.
~ Mary Russell Mitford

And I rose. In rainy autumn. And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…
~ Dylan Thomas

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining…
~ Francis Brett Young

Autumn, the one season that God seemed to put there just for the beauty of it.
~ Lee Maynard

Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.
~ Unknown

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
~ Faith Baldwin

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Fall Quotes About Love

Summer love may pass, but then comes delicious autumn. Celebrate your fall love with one of these sweet sayings.

Only lovers see the fall a signal end to endings.
~ Maya Angelou

Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
~ Emily Bronte

Autumn is all about falling: falling leaves, falling temperatures, and falling in love.
~ Unknown

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.
~ George Eliot

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
~ Truman Capote

But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.
~ Frank Sinatra, Autumn Leaves

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The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale.
~ Cornelia L. Tuthill

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
~ Rémy de Gourmon

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
~ Dodie Smith

Autumn is the perfect season for hand holding and getting lost in the red and gold.
~ Unknown

Autumn is no time to lie alone.
~ Murasaki Shikibu

If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.
~ Laura Jaworski

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

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

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Funny Fall Quotes

Silly and sassy saying to keep your followers engaged!

Pumpkin spice and everything nice.
~ Unknown

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, Pooh’s Grand Adventure

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
~ Jane Hirshfield

Autumn whispered to the wind, “I fall but always rise again.”
~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

Summer makes me drowsy.
Autumn makes me sing.
Winter’s pretty lousy,
but I hate Spring.
~ Dorothy Parker

Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit!
~ Unknown

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

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O Autumn, Autumn!
O pensive light
and wistful sound!
Gold-haunted sky,
green-haunted ground!
~ Effie Lee Newsome

I come by light of an autumn moon.
~ Broken Bells

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
~ L.M. Montgomery

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

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

The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.
~ John Muir

Sweater weather is better together.
~ Unknown

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

If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot

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Inspirational Fall Quotes

Fall might seem like the end of growth, but it’s just the start of something new. Stay inspired with this collection of fall quotes.

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

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~ P.D. James

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

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
~ Hal Borland

See it, smell it, taste it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.
~ Hal Borland

Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home.
~ Henry Rollins

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Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
~ Rumi

The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late
~ J. L. Carr

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?
~ Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.
~ Tove Jansson

There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees–as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.
~ Ruth Ahmed

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

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

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

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In autumn, more can change than just the leaves.
~ Louise M

Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.
~ Rumi

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

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Fall Leaves Quotes

Take time to enjoy the turning leaves and harvest moon with these special sayings.

Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.
~ Delia Owens

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

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

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.
~ Humbert Wolfe

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
~ Joe L. Wheeler,

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

It’s a beautiful fall day. Gentle wind teases stubborn autumn leaves.
~ Fidelis O. Mkparu

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

Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.
~ Delia Owens

The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.
~ Malcolm Lowry

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

Now autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
~ William Allingham

Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.
~ Mehmet Murat Idles

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

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

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Autumn Quotes

Is it autumn or fall? Both are used interchangeably in both American and British English. Fall is more commonly used on this side of the pond though (US), and rarely in countries where British English is spoken.

Autumn is considered to be the more formal name. The quotes below refer to it as such.

Either way, it’s an amazing season!

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Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
~ Yoko Ono

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

Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.
~ Unknown

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

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

The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.
~ Charlotte Bates

Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year.
~ Henry Rollins

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

Autumn embraces change, even as she is falling to pieces.
~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

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

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

Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.
~ William Wordsworth

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

Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.
~ Terri Guillemets

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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

Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like spring. I feel like a warm red autumn.
~ Marilyn Monroe

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

Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.
~ Dan Millman

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

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

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

And the sunsets of autumn – are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry?
~ Charles Lanman

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If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
~ Victoria Erickson

A friend you are, sweet autumn day; to never falter, in my soul you stay.
~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

Now autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
~ William Allingham

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