Top 62 Autumn Quotes

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Autumn is one of the most beautiful seasons. The changing of the seasons also brings beautiful oranges, reds, and browns. With that in mind, check out the top 62 Autumn quotes.

#62 – 60. Autumn Quotes

62. “Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies.” Sharon Kay Penman

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

60. “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

#59 – 50. Autumn Quotes

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

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

57. “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

56. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” Henry David Thoreau

55. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryant

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

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

52. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Friedrich Nietzsche

51. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” Yoko Ono

50. “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

#49 – 40. Autumn Quotes

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

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

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

46. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” William Cullent Bryant

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

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

43. “My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.” Robert Frost

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

41. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” Nova S. Blair

40. “For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.” Hal Borland

#39 – 30. Autumn Quotes

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

38. “Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” Elizabeth Lawrence

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

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

35. “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

34. “Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn.” Donna Lynn Hope

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

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

31. “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” John Burroughs

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

#29 – 20. Autumn Quotes

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

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

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

26. “Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” Robert Browning

25. “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

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

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

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

21. “I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.” Wendy Delsol

20. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryant

#19 – 10. Autumn Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. “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

12. “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

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

10. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” Anne of Green Gables

#9 – 1. Autumn Quotes

9. “…I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

6. “Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.” Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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

2. “Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.” Hal Borland

1.”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

Ideas for the top 62 autumn quotes come from the following sources.^[1]semi delicate balance – 27 BEST AUTUMN QUOTES | MESSAGES AND SAYINGS FOR THE FALL SEASON^[2]Country Living – 47 Fall Quotes to Remind You Just How Amazing Autumn Is^[3]Town & Country – 17 of the Best Quotes About Autumn