Autumn Days Quotes:

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

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Fallen Trees

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Autumn, Years, Lasts, Equinox, Autumn Days

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

- John Burroughs

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Light, Inspirational Nature, Light And Color

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

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Beautiful, Autumn, Air, Fall Autumn, Cider

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Bird, Inspirational Nature, October And Fall

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Autumn, World, October, October And Fall, Autumn Days

Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

- Will Carleton

source: Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

topic: Sweet, Autumn, Yellow, Haze, Fall Autumn

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

topic: Morning, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Winter Morning

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

source: Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, Fall Season, Finale

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. 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

topic: Autumn, Air, Giving, Fall Autumn, Hectic

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

topic: Inspiring, Summer, Cheer, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Sadness, Years, Wind, Meadows, Sears

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Fall, Autumn, Positivity, Summer To Fall, Fall Autumn

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

- Eric Sloane

source: Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

topic: Autumn, Lakes, Air, October And Fall, Crunch

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Time, Morning, Spring, Spring Day, October And Fall

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

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Art, Morning, Autumn, Fall Autumn, Fall Season

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.57, New York Review of Books

topic: Autumn, Giving, Juicy, Orchard, Ripe

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

- Johnny Mercer

topic: Summer, Song, Fall, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

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

topic: Love, Beautiful, Rain, Pastures, Dark Days

I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

- Alys Fowler

topic: Summer, Goodbye, Morning, Wellington, Scarlet

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Heart, Mean, Eye, Autumn Days

The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

- Thomas Hood

topic: Morning, Winter, Autumn, Winter Cold, Winter Morning

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

- William Allingham

source: William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Fire, Summer To Fall, Grim

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Autumn, Sea, Smell, Fall Autumn, Fall Season

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Fall, Exercise, Autumn, Withered Leaves, Fall Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

- John Keats

source: John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

topic: Friendship, Summer, Running, Gourds, October And Fall

It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.

- Sarah Dunn

source: Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

topic: New York, Autumn, Blue, Fall Autumn, Autumn Days

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

topic: Summer, Flower, Fall, Summer To Fall, Waxing

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

- Hal Borland

topic: Distance, Autumn, Men, October And Fall, Ripeness

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

- Truman Capote

source: Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

topic: Spring, Fall, Autumn, Fall Season, Autumn Days

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

- Sharon Kay Penman

source: Sharon Kay Penman (2002). “Time and Chance”, p.291, Penguin

topic: Autumn, Years, Sky, Countryside, Scarlet

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ***** 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

topic: Summer, Fall, Light, Treacherous, Last Summer

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

- David Letterman

topic: Change, Fun, Fall, Bird Watching, Fall Autumn

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

- P. D. James

source: P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.339, Faber & Faber

topic: Life, Memories, Fall, October And Fall, Fall Season

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

- John Donne

source: 'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

topic: Beauty, Summer, Spring, Spring Poems, Spring Season

Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Autumn, Snow, Mind, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Autumn, Lakes, Air, Fall Autumn, Autumn Days

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

- Robert Browning

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Autumn, Autumn Days

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

- Alan Lightman

topic: Life, Autumn, Doors, Closing Doors, Snowfall

But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

- James Whitcomb Riley

source: James Whitcomb Riley (1994). “Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

topic: Morning, Autumn, Air, Fodder, Autumn Days

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

- Elizabeth Goudge

source: Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

topic: Spring, Autumn, Saint, Autumn Days

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

topic: Best Love, Autumn, Lovers, Autumn Days

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

- Mary Carolyn Davies

topic: Dog, Autumn, Loss, Old Ways, Sympathy For Loss

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

- Anton Chekhov

source: "Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

topic: Nature, Freedom, Autumn, Dwellers, Autumn Days

Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

- Kathryn Hughes

topic: Real, Autumn, Doors, Autumn Days

Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD

- Kyle Lake

topic: Running, Autumn, Past, Warmth Of The Sun, Autumn Days