164 Short October Quotes for Instagram
October has arrived, bringing the crisp air, vibrant leaves, and the scent of pumpkin spice.
It’s the perfect time to embrace the cozy charm of fall and share your autumn spirit on Instagram. From the rustling leaves underfoot to the anticipation of Halloween, October is truly a month to celebrate.
Dive into our collection of the best short October quotes perfect for your next Instagram caption.
Whether you’re enjoying a pumpkin latte or picking out your Halloween costume, we’ve got the right words to match your fall mood.
So, grab your favorite sweater, pick your pumpkin, and let’s discover together the wonders of October through these captivating quotes!
Our Best Short October Quotes for Instagram
1# “It’s like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
2# “I keep falling in love with October, Over and over again!” ― Charmaine J. Forde
3# “First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” ― Ray Bradbury
4# “October, the extravagant sister.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
5# “You don’t waste October sunshine.” ― Katherine Arden
6# “Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” – Nelson Algren
7# “The crickets still sing in October.” ― Kevin Dalton
8# “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
9# “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” – Bonaro W. Overstreet
10# “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
11# “October has broken my heart before…” ― Nitya Prakash
12# “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
13# “I come alive in the fall time.” — The Weeknd
14# “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Bronte
15# “But now it’s time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way.” — Led Zeppelin
16# “It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.” — Robbie Coltrane
17# “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” – Henry Ward Beecher
18# “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde
19# “If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” — George Eliot
20# “In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
21# “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
22# “October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” – John Sinor
23# “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” ― L.M. Montgomery
24# “October is a hallelujah!” – John Nichols
25# “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” ― Charmaine J Forde
26# “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
27# “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.” — George Eliot
28# “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens
29# “The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” — Unknown
30# “Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
31# “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs
32# “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
33# “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
34# “Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.” — Unknown
35# “October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” ― Keith Donohue
36# “I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” – Charmaine J. Forde
37# “October, baptize me with leaves!” – – Rainbow Rowell
38# “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
39# “This tree must be falling for me, as soon as I sat under it, it dropped its leaves. Oh sweet October!” ― Charmaine J Forde
40# “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova Bair
41# “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
42# “Autumn is the time of picturesque tranquility.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
43# “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont
44# “Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.” — Unknown
45# “Autumn is the hush before winter.” — French Proverb
46# “October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came.” — George Cooper
47# “October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.” – Rainbow Rowell
48# “October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Short Inspirational October Quotes
49# “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.” – Humbert Wolfe
50# “In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” – Alexander Smith
51# “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables
52# “October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…” — John Nichols
53# “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova Bair
54# “I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” — Charmaine J. Forde
55# “A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.” — Nitya Prakash
56# “October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.” – Hal Borland
57# “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” — Carol Bishop Hipps
58# “October was always the least dependable of months…full of ghosts and shadows.” — Joy Fielding
59# “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet
60# “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” — Charmaine J. Forde
61# “The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.” – W.B. Yeats
62# “Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.” – John Leonard
63# “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.” ― Jacqueline Woodson
64# “The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” — Florence Bone
65# “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” — W.S. Merwin
66# “After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth …” — Elizabeth George Speare
67# “A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.” ― Nitya Prakash (Duplicate, consider removing or rephrasing)
68# “What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.” ― Carole Maso
69# “Let the leaves fall where they may, Welcome October, Autumn is here” ― Charmaine J Forde
70# “there’s a promise that what September starts, October will carry on, catching the torch flung into her hand.” ― Faith Baldwin
71# “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
72# “I’m an October baby, yes.” – Cardi B
73# “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul, but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” – Peggy Toney Horton
74# “There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.” ― William Bliss
75# “Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!” — Rusty Fischer
76# “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
Short October Sayings
77# October: sweater weather and pumpkin season.
78# When the days start to decrease, autumn starts to grow in everything.
79# Autumn skies and pumpkin pies
80# Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling.
81# My favorite color is October.
82# Orange is the new black
83# Sweater weather is better together.
84# What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern? A pumpkin patch.
85# Go big or gourd home.
86# Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.
87# How ‘Bout Them Apples?
88# October shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.
89# October’s charm, unwinding each leaf.
90# Frost on the pumpkin, fire in the sky.
91# Well hello there October
92# Pumpkin spice and everything nice
93# Tea and fuzzy socks season
94# It’s October so I’m off enjoying fall
95# Stressed, blessed, pumpkin obsessed
96# October ends in a swirl of golden leaves.
97# Harvest moons light October nights.
98# October’s gold, treasured in every leaf.
99# Hello, October!
100# It’s October – Time to welcome fall
101# These colors are unbe-leaf-able!
102# Please be good to me, October
103# Fall foliage is my favorite color
104# October…Chapter 10
105# I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall
106# Life is better in October
107# Don’t stop be-leafing
108# Chill October brings the color.
109# In October, every leaf flowers into color.
110# Sweaters and silence in the October air.
111# Pumpkins gleam; welcome October’s beam.
112# Beneath the October twilight, magic stirs.
113# Autumn’s heart beats in October tones.
114# You are unbe-leaf-able
115# Don’t be so fall of yourself!
116# Never fear, pumpkin-flavored everything is here!
117# Orange you glad it’s fall?
118# October sings the song of spices and twilight.
119# Let October’s magic enchant you.
120# October dances in dreams of amber.
121# Greet October’s breeze with open arms.
122# In October, every leaf is a masterpiece.
123# Autumn’s full glory begins in October.
124# October, the artist’s palette of nature.
125# A mosaic of October leaves underfoot.
126# October: when the ghosts whisper and the spirits move.
October Quotes About Seasonal Transitions
127# “October is the treasure of the year.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
128# “October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.” — Hal Borland
129# “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
130# “The magic of October is a reminder that it’s never too late to change your story.”
131# “October is the perfect month to start anew. Embrace the change and chase your dreams.”
132# “October’s gold, treasured in every leaf.”
133# “October ends in a swirl of golden leaves.”
134# “Harvest moons light October nights.”
135# “Chill October brings the color.”
136# “In October, every leaf flowers into color.”
Short Fall Quotes
137# “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful.” — Siobhan Vivian
138# “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield
139# “Fall has always been my favorite season.” — Lauren DeStefano
140# “Autumn! The greatest show of all times!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
141# “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the top of a leaf.” — Rabindranath Tagore
142# “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen
143# “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” — Charlotte Fiske Bates, “Woodbines in October”
144# “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
145# “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson
146# “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
147# “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
148# “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
149# “Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.” — Doug Larson
150# “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
151# “When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
152# “Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.” — Dorothy Parker
153# “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” — Shira Tamir
154# “If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.” – Devendra Banhart
155# “Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without its leading role – pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.” – Rachel Hollis
156# “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” — Ann Drake
157# “The witches fly, Across the sky, The owls go, ‘Who? Who? Who?’ The black cats yowl, And green ghosts howl, ‘Scary Halloween to you!’” – Nina Willis Walter
158# “It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” – Brackett
159# “I love Halloween and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” – Evan Peters
160# “Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the ‘spirits’ of things.” – Dee Snider
161# “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond
162# “Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses.” – Eleanor Estes
163# “Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…” – Nicholas Gordon
164# “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’” – Dexter Kozen
