Autumn Season Quotes:

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

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

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Spring, Autumn, Looking Forward, October And Fall, Fall And Winter

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

- Albert Camus

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

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

- Jim Bishop

topic: Autumn, Gold, Pockets, Autumn Inspirational, Autumn Love

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

- Faith Baldwin

source: Faith Baldwin (1935). “American Family”

topic: Running, Autumn, Flames, Summer To Fall, Fall And Winter

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

- Hal Borland

topic: Summer, Autumn, Night, Moon Night, Summer To Fall

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

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

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Time, Spring, Fall, October And Fall, Equinox

Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

- Vernon Duke

topic: New York, Autumn, Doe, Autumn Inspirational, Autumn Season

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

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

- Dorothy Parker

source: Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

topic: Summer, Spring, Hate, Summer To Fall, Drowsy

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

topic: Autumn, Men, Together, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

Autumn arrives in the early morning.

- Elizabeth Bowen

source: 'The Death of the Heart' (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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

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

- Lee Maynard

topic: Autumn, Years, Fall Season, Autumn Love, Autumn Season

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Autumn, Sunshine, Air, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

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

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

topic: Autumn, October And Fall, Fall Autumn, Autumn Equinox, Autumn Season

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Fall, Autumn, August, Summer To Fall, Foliage

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

topic: Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude, Spring Summer, Summer And Winter

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

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

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

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

- William Blake

source: William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

topic: Daughter, Song, Flower, October And Fall, Autumn Equinox

I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

- Thomas Hood

source: 'Ode: Autumn'

topic: Fall, Autumn, Silence, October And Fall, Forlorn

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

- Samuel Butler

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Flower, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

- Henry Beston

topic: Summer, Country, Fall, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Lonely, Halloween, Fall, Circulation, Malaria

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

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

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

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

topic: Flower, Fall, Autumn, Fall Season, Autumn Season

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

- Walter Scott

topic: Spring, Autumn, Tree, Plant A Tree, Bearing Fruit

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

topic: Life, Spring, Flower, Fall Autumn, Fall Season

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

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Summer, Fall, Sadness, Sharpness, October And Fall

The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Fall, Nuts, Rose, Maple, October And Fall

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.66, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Nature, Believe, Autumn, Deranged, Thrifty

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

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

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

- William Cowper

topic: Time, Spring, Fall, Spring Garden, 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

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

- Andrew Wyeth

source: Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

topic: Fall, Winter, Waiting, Winter Days, Winter Months

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Summer, Song, Flower, Summer Flower, Autumn Season

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

- Backseat Goodbye

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, October And Fall, Plant A Tree