There's just something about fall that brings out the poet in us all. Maybe it's the stunning landscapes, the cool breezes that make you want to curl up with a book, or the reminder that change can be a great thing. No matter the reason, this season has inspired memorable quotes from all kinds of great writers, artists, lyricists, filmmakers and more.
Whether it's thoughtful musings about falling leaves or funny observations about the spookiest season around, the best fall quotes transport us all to that time of year when the air really does feel alive.
And who wouldn't want to be transported to such a magical season? That's why we couldn't miss out on a chance to share our favorite fall quotes with you, from song lyrics that capture the romance of the season to movie moments that make you cackle and everything in between.
Scribble them on a Post-it note, share them with your fall-loving bestie, use them in an Instagram caption, or simply let these quotes warm your heart faster than a pumpkin spice latte.
The Best Fall Quotes
"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." — You've Got Mail
"You've heard of the fury of a woman scorned, haven't you? Well, that's nothing compared to a woman who has been cheated out of tricks-or-treats." — It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
"The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin, but as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared, my heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within." — Fiona Apple, "Pale September"
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." — Albert Camus
"If a year was tucked inside a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour." — Victoria Erickson
"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
"The autumn moon lights my way." — Led Zeppelin
"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. Oh autumn! Oh teakettle! Oh grace!" — Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." — Jim Bishop
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Anyone who thinks falling leaves are dead has never seen them dancing in the wind." — Shira Tamir
"I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air." — Anna Madsen
"And now I know why all the trees change in the fall." — Taylor Swift, "The Best Day"
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." — Henry David Thoreau
"We could slip away, wouldn't that be better? Me with nothing to say and you in your autumn sweater." — Yo La Tengo, "Autumn Sweater"
"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, Salem's Lot
"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year." — Chad Sugg
"The summer sun was setting when you set your sights to leave, and I braced myself believing it would bring me to my knees. Oh, but here it is October, oh the leaves are turning gold. Each night's a little bluer but autumn's not that cold." — Skip Ewing, "Autumn's Not That Cold"
"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall," — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see." — Vincent Van Gogh
"Autumn cannot be measured in days or hours. Autumn is a period of weather, a state of mind, a feeling in the blood and the bones. Autumn begins — for us — with the first rains and ends in a period of blustery confusion sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The exact hour, minute, and second are unimportant. What is important is how we feel about it." — Medford Mail Tribune, Oregon, Aug. 30, 1954
"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, Same Difference
"Autumn! The greatest show of all times!" — Mehmet Murat Ildan
"But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall." — Frank Sinatra
"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
"Air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers." — Wendy Delsol
"It's the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolate mornings, toasty marshmallow evenings, and best of all, leaping into leaves!" — Winnie the Pooh
"I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it." — Lee Maynard, Crum
"And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened." — Raquel Franco, Keep Me Wild
"I love the autumn — that melancholy season that suits memories so well." — Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman and November
"There are three things I've learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." — It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." — Stanley Horowitz
"The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider." — Jane Hirshfield
"Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall; bright flame before winters's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently huge hurrah before the black and white silence of winter." — Shauna Niequist
"Autumn in New York, the gleaming rooftops at sundown. Oh, autumn in New York. It lifts you up when you're run down." — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "Autumn in New York"
"It's too cold for you here. And now, let me hold both your hands in the holes of my sweater." — The Neighborhood, "Sweater Weather"
"Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends." — Green Day, "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
"Breathe it in, folks. Smells like fall." — Gilmore Girls
"It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day. The sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance." — Washington Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"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, letter to Miss Lewis
"Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze. We're singing in the car getting lost upstate. Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place. And I can picture it after all these days." — Taylor Swift, "All Too Well"
"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, Angle of Repose
"The weather went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper!" — Unknown
"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits." — Samuel Butler
"A journey into autumn's deep puts all my worries fast asleep." — Angie Weiland-Crosby
"Autumn is no time to lie alone." — Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
"My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke — like the end and the beginning of something all at once." — Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods." — Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby
"October is a symphony of permanence and change." — Bonaro W. Overstreet
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