100 November Quotes: Reflections on Fall, Family, and Gratitude
November is the month when fall ends, the days get shorter, and it gets colder.
It’s also the time for Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season.
If you need some nice quotes to say hello to November, you’re in the right place.
Whether you want something inspiring for November or just a way to greet the holiday season, you’ll find it here.
Keep reading or skip ahead to find your favorite quote.
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
Hello November Quotes
“Jam on November took away the worries, It was like tasting summer.” – El Fuego
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.” – Sir Walter Scott
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”. – Emily Brontë
“This November there seems to be nothing to say.” – Anne Sexton
“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.” – Edwin Way Teale
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.” – Gladys Taber
“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” – Anne Bosworth Greene
“Happiness is coffee on a fall day.” – Unknown
“It was November–the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.” – Henry David Thoreau
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” – Emily Dickinson
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.” – Cyril Connolly
“You are never too old to play in the leaves.” – Unknown
“If you want me to stop listening to Christmas music in November, all you have to do is ask, so I can say no.” – Unknown
“November comesAnd November goes,With the last red berriesAnd the first white snows.”– Elizabeth Coatsworth
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
“November, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.” – Ambrose Bierce
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
“Hello, November! Now, the days are going to be cooler and the days shorter.”
“Hello, November! Let the celebrations begin.”
“Goodbye October, and a big hello to November.”
“Hello November! Thankful for my favorite month.”
“Long cold nights mark November’s return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.” – Gladys Taber
“In November, you begin to know how long the winter will be.” – Martha Gellhorn
““No”vember – a time to say “no” to people, places, and things that drain your energy.” – Unknown
“Hello, November! Be a month of peace and love.”
“Hello November! I’m ready for Thanksgiving.”
“Goodbye October. It’s a new month with new hope and a new spirit. Hello November! Please, be good to me.”
“Hello November, I know you are going to be a great month for me.”
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.” – Cynthia Rylant
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops – which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.” – William Peter Blatty
“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.” – Jean Hersey
“It’s finally November. Mariah Carey and Micheal Bublé are defrosting as we speak.” – Unknown
“Beyond the pearled horizons lie winter and night: awaiting these We garner this poor hour of ease, Until love turn from us and die Beneath the drear November trees.” – Ernest Dowson
“Thanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather.” – Aileen Fisher
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!” – Jeff Dixon
“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” – Harry A. Ironside
“It’s the nature of the world. One thing remains, and one gone. Goodbye October and Hello November.”
“Hello November, please be a good month that brings smiles and happiness to our lives.”
“Hello, November and Goodbye October. Here’s to an exciting, joyful, enjoyable, peaceful, and blessed month.”
“My lovely November. Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?” – A Waltz for Zizi
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” – Emily Dickinson
“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.” – Sylvia Plath
“I may not be where I want to be but I’m thankful for not being where I used to be.” – Habeeb Akande
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” – W.T. Purkiser
“And November sad, a psalm. Tender, trustful, full of balm. Thou must breathe in spirits calm.” – Caroline May
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
“How beautifully leaves grow old.” – John Burroughs
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly.” – Delia Owens.
“O autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.” – George Eliot
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” – J.K. Rowling
“This is going to be a November to remember” ― Charmaine J. Forde
“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“We seldom think of November in terms of beauty or any other specially satisfying tribute. November is simply that interval between colorful and dark December. Then, nearly every year, come a few November days of clear, crisp weather that makes one wonder why November seldom gets its due. There is the November sky, clean of summer dust, blown clear this day of the urban smog that so often hazes autumn.” – Hal Borland
“The house was very quiet, and the fog we are in November now pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” – E.M. Forster
“The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.” – Cecil Day-Lewis
“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.” – J. Aleksandr Woott
“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.” – Alexander L. Fraser
“When shriek’d the bleak November winds, and smote the woods, and the brown fields were herbless, and the shades. That met above the merry rivulet, were spoil’d, I sought, I loved them still, they seem’d like old companions in adversity.” – William Cullen Bryant
“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.” – Gregory F. Lenz
Welcome November!
Keep calm and welcome November.
Welcoming the month of November
Inspirational November Quotes
“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.” – Cynthia Rylant
“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.” – D. H. Lawrence
“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” – Cynthia Rylant
“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.” – Peggy Toney Horton
“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.” – Gladys Taber
“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.” — John Clare
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” — Will Arnett
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.” — Arianna Huffington
“Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.” — Robert Braathe
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” — David Steindl-Rast
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies.” — Nora Ephron
“If you cannot find gratitude, you’ll never find peace.” — Leticia Rae
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling wood stoves, sipping mellow cider.” – Cynthia Rylant
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph
“Spring’s wakening bugle long is hushed, long dimm’d is Summer’s splendour October yields her easel bright to “black and white” November.” – James Rigg
“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset.” – E.E. Cummings
“Even when November’s sun is low and Winter flaps his fleecy wings. Thy gold among his silvery snow a solace in the sadness brings.” – James Rigg
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Write about winter in the fall.” – Annie Dillard
“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a fall’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock
“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.” – Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
“Will you forgive me these November days?” ― Anna Akhmatova
“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” – Andrea Gibson
“No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, no comfortable feel in any member. No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees. No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November.” – Thomas Hood
“November came roaring in with gusty winds and more wet weather.” – Julie Andrews Edwards
