Blogtober – Day 7 – Favourite Autumn Quotes

Autumn quotes

The sights, smells, and sounds of Autumn inspire lots of amazing quotes. Here are some of my favourite Autumn quotes. I hope you enjoy them!

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn–that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness–that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”

– Henry Beston

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

– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”

– Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”

– Lee Maynard

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

– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”

– John B. Tabb

“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”

– Humbert Wolfe

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