55 fall quotes that embrace all things autumn (2025)

Autumn is here, and there's nothing like the arrival of fall to inspire thoughts of apple picking, cozy sweaters and pumpkin-flavored treats baking in the oven.

With Mother Nature doing some of her finest handiwork this time of year — whether it be the changing leaves or frosty mornings — it's truly a season to celebrate.

To mark the occasion, we've collected some of our favorite fall quotes to post on Instagram, send to a friend, jot down in a greeting card or use however you see fit.

Among the sayings below, you'll find quotes on harvests, apples and other fall favorites from luminaries like Robert Frost, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry David Thoreau, just to name a few.

There are also short autumn sayings borrowed from some of the season's best songs including “Autumn Leaves” by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald's classic “Autumn in New York.”

Whatever plans you've got on the calendar to ring in the fall equinox this year, these memorable quotes serve as the perfect companion to all your fall activities, whatever they may be.

So, grab your flannel, settle in with a mug of warm apple cider and get ready to fall in love with these seasonal sayings.

Fall Quotes

• “The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, a vast balloon.” — Ted Hughes, “The Harvest Moon”
• “How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky the gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!” — Thomas Hood
• “The autumn road, the mellow wind that soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.” — Rupert Brooke, “The Chilterns”
• “A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day.” — Alan Lightman
• “What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?” — John Greenleaf Whittier

• “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” — Faith Baldwin
• “A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!” — Marilyn Monroe
• “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
• “By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson

• “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
• “The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn, And the raspin’ of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn.” — James Whitcomb Riley, “When the Frost is on the Punkin”
• “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the top of a leaf.” — Rabindranath Tagore
• “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
• “Of the great harvest I myself desired.” — Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking”

• “I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky / And one by one they disappear.” — The Moody Blues, “Forever Autumn”
• “But I miss you most of all, my darling / When autumn leaves start to fall.” — Frank Sinatra, “Autumn Leaves”
• “Nature’s first green is gold.” — Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
• “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen
• “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” — B.C. Forbes

• “I saw old Autumn in the misty morn. Stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” — Thomas Hood
• “But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!” — Margaret Junkin Preston
• “Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.” — William Allingham
• “Blaze the mountains in the windless Autumn, Frost-clear, blue-nooned, apple-ripening days.” — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
• “It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes ... ” — Gwendolyn Brooks

• “Autumn, it carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
• “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen, “First Frost”
• “Every leaf speaks bliss to me / Fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”
• “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”

• “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, “A Month in the Country”
• “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”
• “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Remy de Gourmont
• “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
• “Since you went away the days grow long / And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song / But I miss you most of all my darling / When autumn leaves start to fall.” — Nat King Cole, “Autumn Leaves”

• “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
• “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield, “The Heat of Autumn”
• “Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” — Terri Guillemets
• “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days.” — Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”
• “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne, “The Autumnal Face”

• “Fall is here, hear the yell.” — The White Stripes, “We’re Going to Be Friends”
• “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” — Truman Capote, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories”
• “It’s autumn in New York / That brings the promise of new love / Autumn in New York / Is often mingled with pain.” — Ella Fitzgerald, “Autumn in New York”
• “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” — Nora Ephron, “You’ve Got Mail”
• “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring”

• “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens, “Where the Crawdads Sing”
• “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
• “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” — Shira Tamir
• “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize.” — George Eliot
• “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

• “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” —Charlotte Fiske Bates, “Woodbines in October”
• “She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.” — Sarah Addison Allen, “Garden Spells”
• “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard
• “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham, “Ross Poldark”
• “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” — Raquel Franco