Top Autumn Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Autumn quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Elizabeth George Speare
After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.
- Elizabeth George Speare
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Image of Gretel Ehrlich
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
- Gretel Ehrlich
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Image of Alexander Smith
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
- Alexander Smith
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Image of Rainbow Rowell
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
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Image of Henry Abbey
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!
- Henry Abbey
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Image of John Burnside
and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.
- John Burnside
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Image of A.S.A. Harrison
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
- A.S.A. Harrison
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Image of Mary Webb
Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
- Mary Webb
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Image of Mary Webb
Autumn is full of leave-taking.
- Mary Webb
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Image of John Millington Synge
Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.
- John Millington Synge
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Image of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Image of Francis Turner Palgrave
In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.
- Francis Turner Palgrave
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Image of Ken Weber
October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.
- Ken Weber
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Image of Sarah Doudney
Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.
- Sarah Doudney
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Image of Martha Ostenso
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.
- Martha Ostenso
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Image of Martha Ostenso
The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.
- Martha Ostenso
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Image of Henry Parry Liddon
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
- Henry Parry Liddon
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Image of Mary Howitt
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!
- Mary Howitt
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Image of Densey Clyne
Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.
- Densey Clyne
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Image of J. L. Carr
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
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Image of Kyffin Williams
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy
- Kyffin Williams
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Image of Bai Juyi
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.
- Bai Juyi
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Image of Joe L. Wheeler
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
- Joe L. Wheeler
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Image of Joe L. Wheeler
Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.
- Joe L. Wheeler
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Image of Fujiwara no Teika
Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.
- Fujiwara no Teika
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Image of Helen Hunt
The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
- Helen Hunt
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Image of Darren Lynn Bousman
I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.
- Darren Lynn Bousman
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Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Now is the autumn of our ennui.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Image of Edmund Spenser
Then came October, full of merry glee.
- Edmund Spenser
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Image of John Greenleaf Whittier
Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Image of Haruki Murakami
Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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Image of Albert Schweitzer
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Image of Natalia Vodianova
When I'm down on energy, I have these superfoods powders with supergreens, algae, spirulina, and wheat germ extract. Sometimes I have a course of vitamins. For example, in autumn I'm going to start shots of B12 and biotin. For me this is really important because I travel so much. My lifestyle is quite challenging and this is something that supplements me before winter starts, which is a difficult time for your body.
- Natalia Vodianova
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Image of May Sarton
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.
- May Sarton
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Image of John Muir
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest
- John Muir
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Image of Erin Morgenstern
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
- Erin Morgenstern
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Image of Jenny Downham
Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.
- Jenny Downham
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Image of Matsuo Basho
An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.
- Matsuo Basho
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Image of Ray Bradbury
Beware the autumn people
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of John Greenleaf Whittier
Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Image of Tom Robbins
It was autumn, the springtime of death.
- Tom Robbins
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Image of Hal Borland
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
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Image of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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
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Image of William Wordsworth
Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.
- William Wordsworth
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Image of Saul Williams
Two autumns and I have not changed enough.
- Saul Williams
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