29 First Day of Fall Quotes to Soothe, Reflect, and Begin Again
The first day of fall feels like nature pressing pause.
Crisp air, soft light, and trees whispering in gold.
We’ve scoured the internet to find the most beautiful first day of fall quotes to honor this quiet beginning.
First Day of Fall Quotes
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” — George Eliot
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” — Winnie the Pooh
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” — e.e. cummings
“Another fall, another turned page…” — Wallace Stegner
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” — J.K. Rowling
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” — Ann Drake
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard
“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
“Autumn leaves and pumpkin please!” — Unknown
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova Bair
“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
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” — Vincent van Gogh
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
“The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it…” — George Eliot
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” — Unknown
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë
“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” — Robert Browning
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” — Unknown
