
Autumn is here with all its leaves in different colors. With crisp days and dark nights.
With cozy sweaters and plenty of cups of tea while watching the rain drizzle outside.
It’s also a time to find new motivation and energy for this season.
So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most beautiful, positive, funny and inspirational fall quotes.
I hope this one will help you to have a happy, less stressful and more successful fall season.
Inspirational Fall Quotes for a Happy Season
“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
“Autumn whispered to the wind, ‘I fall but always rise again.’”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
– Lee Maynard
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“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
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
– Charlotte Bates
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler
“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
“Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.”
– Unknown
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz
Motivational and Positive Fall Quotes for Work and Autumn Success
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B.C. Forbes
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
– Alexander Graham Bell
“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
“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
– Truman Capote
“Autumn embraces change, even as she is falling to pieces.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets
“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”
– Ruth Ahmed
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.”
– Rumi
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
– Gary Ryan Blair
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb
Funny Fall Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
– P.D. James
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!”
– Billy Butcherson (from the movie Hocus Pocus)
“Never trust the living.”
– Beetlejuice
“If you’ve got it, haunt it.”
– Rose Pressey
“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
– Gomez (from the movie The Addams Family)
“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.”
– Jay Hawkins
“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Brackett, Halloween
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin)
“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
“I’m guessing Angela’s the one in the neighborhood who gives the trick-or-treaters some toothbrushes. Pennies. Walnuts.”
– Pam Beasley (from the TV-show The Office)
“A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!”
– Marilyn Monroe
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer
“I’m your number one fan.”
– Annie Wilkes (from the movie Misery)
Aesthetic and Cute Fall Quotes to Welcome the Season (Great for Instagram)
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”
– William Wordsworth
“Days decrease, and autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
– Robert Browning
“And I rose. In rainy autumn. And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
– Dylan Thomas
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
– Faith Baldwin
“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”
– Ann Drake
“Autumn colors my soul in the loveliest shades.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
– Mary Russell Mitford
“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.”
– Laura Jaworski
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”
– George Eliot
“Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
– Mehmet Murat Idles
“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.”
– Malcolm Lowry
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J.K. Rowling
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
– Diana Gabaldon
“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. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
– Rainbow Rowell
“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
“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.”
– Unknown
Short Inspirational Fall Quotes for Your Letterboard
“See it, smell it, taste it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.”
– Hal Borland
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
– Elizabeth Bowen
“Happily we bask in the warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”
– Frank Sinatra
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“Autumn arose and my soul bloomed.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”
– Yoko Ono
“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”
– Walt Whitman
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“Nature’s first green is gold.”
– Robert Frost
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
– Nova Bair
“My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown
“O Autumn, Autumn! O pensive light and wistful sound!”
– Effie Lee Newsome
“I come by light of an autumn moon.”
– Broken Bells
“The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.”
– John Muir
“Let it go.”
– Unknown
“Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
– Cynthia Rylant
“A friend you are, sweet autumn day; to never falter, in my soul you stay.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
Want more inspiration for your fall and the rest of the year? Then check out these short fall quotes, the inspirational September quotes here, the short September quotes in this one and also these uplifting and beautiful October quotes.