Seasonal Literary Quotes to Celebrate Fall
If you’re anything like me, you take great comfort in quotes. Whether they are comforting reassurances or inspiring reminders of our own ability, I find quotes to be powerful mantras to hold close to one’s heart. Maybe that’s why I’ve accumulated over a thousand quote pins in my scrolling internet travels. Anyway, to celebrate the change in seasons, I wanted to gather a handful of quotes about fall to embrace the autumnal shift.
Wherever in the world you find yourself, whether you have falling leaves or just slightly cooler temperatures, I hope these quotes about autumn help inspire you as we embark on the new season:
I have a handful of posts about literary quotes here on Cats & Coffee, if you’re looking for some more quotes by theme!
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Favorite Quotes About Autumn
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”
– George Eliot
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
– John Donne
“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
– Truman Capote
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
“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 Shelley
“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
“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
– Angela Carter
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Looking for more fall literature?
I have a complete guide to great books to read in the fall for you here!
Happy reading!
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