Autumn Quotes – 30 Sayings About Late Year, Foliage, Leaves And Autumn Season

Are you looking for stirring fall quotes and the best sayings about foliage, leaves and the late season? Then you've come to the right place! When the autumn season arrives, you can't miss it: autumnal vegetables such as pumpkin and corn are harvested, the leaves turn golden-brown and fall from the trees.

The weather also swings around and gifts us with autumn rain and the unmistakable scent of damp wood, leaves, moss and fallen chestnuts. In short, autumn is unique.

I would therefore like to give you a collection of inspiring quotes about the golden fall. Let's go!

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about the fall have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them and feel free to leave a corrective comment. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

30 inspiring quotes about the golden fall, its leaves and foliage

When the sun shines on September 22 or 23 (depending on whether it is a leap year or not) is vertically above the equator, the autumnal season begins.

As children we always played in the pile of leavesin which the occasional hedgehog had sought shelter. And today, as an adult, I still enjoy the fresh air, slalom through the falling leaves on a forest run and enjoy every second of the fall season from September, through the golden October, to the cool November.

Use the following quotes, sayings and words of wisdom to help your Rekindle enthusiasm for the fall or to strengthen them.

Autumn quotes 1 - 10

1. "There is an autumn stillness that lingers well into the season of colours." (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
2. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." (Albert Camus)
3. "How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." (John Burroughs)
4. "Of all the seasons, autumn does it the most colorfully." (Willy Meurer)
5. "Fall is the spring of winter." (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)
6. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
7. "And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves." (Virginia Woolf)
8. "Like a path in autumn: no sooner has it been swept clean than it is once more covered with dry leaves." (Franz Kafka)
9. "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." (Jim Bishop)
10. "Autumn wind arrives we are alive and can see each other, you and I." (Shiki)

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Autumn quotes 11 - 20

11. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." (L. M. Montgomery)
12. "In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow." (Amit Ray)
13. "You are never too old to play in the leaves." (Unknown)
14. "In the autumn rain, the soul catches cold from its loneliness." (Elmar Kupke)
15. "What spring misses, autumn cannot make up." (Franz Schmidberger)
16. "At times he would catch himself, especially in the fall, thinking of the wild lands; and in dreams strange images of mountains he had never seen would appear to him." (J.R.R. Tolkien)
17. "Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar." (Delia Owens)
18. "Autumn is life, that goes deep." (Monika Minder)
19. "I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October." (Charmaine J. Forde)
20. "In autumn, the silence arises in the gardens, for which we have no time." (Victor Auburtin)

Tip: I have also compiled exciting collections for the other seasons. So feel free to also take an inspiring look at the Spring Quotes, Summer Quotes and Winter Quotes.

Autumn quotes 21 - 30

21. "It is autumn, the season when everyone reaps what they have sown under the cool sun." (Maurice Barres)
22. "My favorite color is October." (Unknown)
23. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." (Henry David Thoreau)
24. "Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker." (Charles M. Schulz)
25. "What August does not do, September will make up." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
26. "The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider." (Jane Hirshfield)
27. "Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves change." (Elizabeth Lawrence)
28. "If the October sky is full of stars, warm stoves are desired." (German Proverb)
29. "We are all leaves on one tree, not like the other, one symmetrical, the other not, and yet equally important to the entirety." (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
30. "Autumn is the year's most beautiful colored smile." (Willy Meurer)

Can you think of any other sayings about the fall season? Then always come up with your ideas in the comments!

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Use the best fall quotes as a personal source of inspiration!

Autumn is the Time of harvest and leaf fall - and guides us from the warm summer into the cold winter. Personally, I look forward to it every year, to the Walks, to the Forest bathing and the Cycling in the golden landscape. You probably feel the same way, don't you? If not, I very much hope that I have been able to inspire you to do the same with these autumn sayings.

What do you do in autumn? Are you an autumn type? And can you think of any other wisdom and sayings about the period from September to November? Either way, I look forward to your comments on this collection.

Stay inspired,

PS: We are often enjoying the whistling autumn wind when suddenly a roaring garden tool destroys the idyllic moment. We are talking about polluting leaf vacuum cleaners and leaf blowers. You can find out why they are ecological madness in the linked article.