68 Short September Quotes to Welcome a New Season
September brings a soft shift of cooler air, turning leaves, and a sense of calm.
It’s a month for reflection and gentle new beginnings.
So we’ve put together a list of all the best September quotes to capture the beauty and stillness of this in-between season.
Take a moment to find the one that feels like September to you.
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“September is the other January.” — Gretchen Rubin
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.” — Bernard Williams
“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.” — Virginia Woolf
“Let’s strive to be better in September!” — Charmaine J. Forde
“Happily we bask in the warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.” — Henry David Thoreau
“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.” — Rowland E. Robinson
“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“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
“It was a lovely afternoon—such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.” — L.M. Montgomery
“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.” — Dominic Riccitello
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” — Terri Guillemets
“September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.” — Jenny Wingfield
“We know that in September, we will wander through warm winds of summer’s wreckage.” — Henry Rollins
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” — J.K. Rowling
“The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on.” — Lauren Oliver
“September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth, and color. It glows like old amber.” — Patience Strong
“September is the month of wonderful weather.” — Unknown
“Nostalgia—that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will remember.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Make it a September to remember.” — Unknown
“I love September, especially when we’re in it.” — Willie Stargell
“Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.” — Green Day
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde
“Be like a tree, and let the dead leaves drop.” — Rumi
“The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels… yet still I feel the old trepidation.” — Sara Baume
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.” — Alexander Theroux
“There is a clarity about September… the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue.” — Faith Baldwin
“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
“September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.” — Louis Macneice
“September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know: autumn has arrived.” — Ann Patchett
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë
“It must be September, July’s gone by.” — Sidney Lanier
“Sing a song of September, bright, and crisp, and clean.” — Sara Teasdale
“To say goodbye is to die a little.” — Raymond Chandler
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.” — George Eliot
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” — Joe L. Wheeler
“Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.” — Mehmet Murat İldan
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens
“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.” — Malcolm Lowry
“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
“Wild is the music of autumnal winds.” — William Wordsworth
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
“The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, the air grows cool and crisp in September.” — Hal Borland
“September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” — Faith Baldwin
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” — Joyce Meyer
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” — Elizabeth Lawrence
“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived. The slant of the sun looks different and something is in the air–a coolness, a hint of frosty mornings to follow.” ― Ann Rinaldi
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets
“Let’s all be nice to September.” ― Nitya Prakash
“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and Autumn was awaked.” — Raquel Franco
“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.” ― Ali Smith
“But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.” ― Stephen King (the previous King quote used was a much longer, different passage)
“The roses hung their heads and dreamed under the still September clouds, and the water plashed and murmured softly among the pebbles of the shore.” ― E.L. Voynich
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen
“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.” – Brené Brown
