50 Fall Quotes That Capture the Cozy Side of the Season

Fall has a way of making everything feel softer.

Sweaters come out, days get shorter, and there’s a certain comfort in the air that other seasons don’t quite have.

It’s easy to get swept up in routine and miss it completely.

These fall quotes are here to help you soak in the little joys of the season.

Short Fall Quotes

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus

“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L. M. Montgomery

“Nothing gold can stay.” — Robert Frost

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne

“The morns are meeker than they were, the nuts are getting brown.” — Emily Dickinson

“The maple wears a gayer scarf, the field a scarlet gown.” — Emily Dickinson

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.” — John Keats

“Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.” — John Keats

“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love.” — George Eliot

“Delicious Autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.” — George Eliot

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” — Truman Capote

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” — Yoko Ono

“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono

“Fall has always been my favorite season.” — Lauren DeStefano

“The time when everything bursts with its last beauty.” — Lauren DeStefano

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves.” — Humbert Wolfe

“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe

“O hushed October morning mild, thy leaves have ripened to the fall.” — Robert Frost

“Begin the hours of this day slow, make the day seem to us less brief.” — Robert Frost

“Release one leaf at break of day; at noon release another leaf.” — Robert Frost

“Retard the sun with gentle mist; enchant the land with amethyst.” — Robert Frost

“Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.” — Robert Frost

“Her early leaf’s a flower; but only so an hour.” — Robert Frost

“Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief.” — Robert Frost

“So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” — Robert Frost

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer.” — Jane Hirshfield

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born.” — Sylvia Plath

“The odd uneven time.” — Sylvia Plath

“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” — Andrea Gibson

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau

“October is the month of painted leaves.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” — J. K. Rowling

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies.” — Nora Ephron

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen

“The year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant

“Autumn is the hardest season.” — Andrea Gibson

“The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art.” — Shauna Niequist

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus

“October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet

“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” — William Wordsworth

“The wild swans at Coole are still, and the autumn beauty is around them.” — W. B. Yeats

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.” — John Keats

“Autumn is a season of transformation, beauty, and quiet reflection.” — Anonymous