85+ Inspirational Fall Quotes | Short, Happy and Funny Autumn Sayings

Fall is a good time to evaluate your life and consider your accomplishments and obstacles. You can maximize this unique time of year by using these motivational Fall quotes.

This collection of seasonal sayings is sure to inspire you, with anything from amusing Autumnal expressions to adorable Fall-related statements. 

BEAUTIFUL FALL QUOTES

1. Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.

Mehmet Murat Idles

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

Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

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

John Donne

4. I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.

Ann Drake

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

Jim Bishop

6. Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise.

George Eliot

7. Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

8. Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.

Terri Guillemets

9. The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward.

Ray Bradbury

10. But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.

Victoria Logue

11. Wild is the music of autumnal winds. Amongst the faded woods.

William Wordsworth

BEST FALL QUOTES

12. The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale.

Cornelia L. Tuthill

13. 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

14. Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Hal Borland

15. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.

Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

Yoko Ono

16. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.

John Muir

17. There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow.

Rudolfo Anaya

18. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Stanley Horowitz

19. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.

Ray Bradbury

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

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

CUTE FALL QUOTES

Autumn has a certain charm to it. Even the gloomiest Fall days can be made brighter with cozy open fires, hot cocoa, and marshmallows.

21. And the sunsets of Autumn—are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry?

Charles Lanman

22. It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!
23. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
24. As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent van Gogh

24. Pumpkin spice and everything nice.
25. But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.

Stephen King, Salem’s Lot

26. It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sarah Addison Allen

HAPPY FALL QUOTES

Do you feel depressed or cheerful during the fall? Autumn has its own pleasures, even though there is a certain sorrow to the end of summer. Use these joyful autumnal sayings to truly embrace the new season.

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

Albert Camus

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

Samuel Butler

29. 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

30. 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

31. If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.

Victoria Erickson

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

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

33. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
34. Scott Fitzgerald
35. Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Truman Capote

35. October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came, The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band.

George Cooper

36. Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

Hal Borland

FALL COLORS QUOTES

37. She loved the fall, all the sun-faded colors of summer repainted by vivid reds and golds still clinging fragilely to branches that would soon be covered with snow.

Naomi Ragen

38. Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.

Siobhan Vivian

39. I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.

Wendy Delsol

40. Come, little leaves,” said the Wind one day, “Come to the meadows with me and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold; For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.

George Cooper

FUNNY FALL QUOTES

These clever fall puns will make you smile for sure.

41. Don’t stop beleaf-ing.
42. Life is gourd in the Fall.
43. Orange you glad it’s Autumn?
44. Thanks, fall my muffin top is now a pumpkin roll.
45. What did the leaf say to Autumn? I’m falling for you!
46. 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

47. Oh my gourdness, it’s Autumn!
48. It’s called fall because everything is falling… leaves, temperature, bank account, motivation.
49. Fall is my second favorite F-word. Food is my first!

INSPIRING FALL QUOTES

Autumn has long served as an inspiration to writers, and you’ll undoubtedly find yourself drawn to their lyrical prose. These are our top motivational autumnal quotations.

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

Faith Baldwin

51. 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

52. I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

Henry David Thoreau

53. 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

54. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

55. There’s something about FALL that makes me feel alive… that life somehow starts on that Indian summer, when leaves dance to kiss the ground, filling the earth with stars and the rustling of leaves beckons me to wander and get lost in its beauty.

Mystqx

56. See it, smell it, taste, it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.

Hal Borland

LEAVES FALL QUOTES

Is there anything more poetic than leaves falling from trees? People go great distances to witness the brilliant hues of yellow, orange, and red leaves during the fall season. 

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

Chad Sugg

58. Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!

Rusty Fischer

59. And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees. and changing leaves.

Virginia Woolf

60. A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.

Anonymous

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

Henry Beston

62. Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.

Dan Millman

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

Emily Brontë

64. How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burrows

65. The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.

Charlotte Bates

66. 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

67. Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.

Elizabeth Lawrence

MOTIVATIONAL FALL QUOTES

Seeing the best in this time of year is the theme of all these inspirational fall-inspired quotations.

68. The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Jane Hirshfield

69. I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

70. Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

Wallace Stegner

71. There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Joe L. Wheeler

72. In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.

Amit Ray

73. 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

74. Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.

Delia Owens

SHORT FALL QUOTES

These autumnal proverbs are brief, but they capture the essence of fall’s joy in a few words. These succinct Fall captions are great for Instagram or to use on Autumn greeting cards. They capture the essence of the season so well.

75. Another Fall, another turned page.

Wallace Stegner

76. Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Mary Russell Mitford

77. Happy pumpkin spice season!
78. Autumn is springtime in reverse.

Terri Guillemets

79. Autumn is the antidote to stifling Summer.

Terri Guillemets

80. Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.

William Cullen Bryant

81. Fall breeze, Autumn leaves.- Anonymous

82. Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. – Walt Whitman

83. And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.- Oscar Wilde

84. Days decrease, and autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Robert Browning

85. Autumn holds a wonder all its own.

Laura Jaworski

THOUGHTFUL AUTUMN QUOTES

86. By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

Henry David Thoreau

88. The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.