Alongside the crisp frostiness of winter, Autumn is my other favorite season. Even as a child, I loved going to the park, jumping freely and without a care in the world in the endless piles of earth-tone leaves. When the warmth of Autumn begins to slowly unmask itself, I can’t help but feel happier, more at ease, and of course, eager to pick up a great novel to enjoy the season. To further celebrate the simple, though stunning beauty of the Fall season, here are 23 wonderful quotes (from books, of course)!
1. “October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
2. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
~ L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
3. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
~ John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
4. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks
5. “She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
~ Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
6. “And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?”
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
7. “The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. […] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. “It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
~ P.D. James, A Taste for Death
9. “Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.”
~ Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl
10. “It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you’ve felt this autumn-feeling before and you’ll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won’t anymore, because you’ll be dead.”
~ Sarah Dunn, Secrets to Happiness
11. “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”
~ Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems
12. “Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us…”
~ Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain
13. “Autumn is no time to lie alone.”
~ Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
14. “But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.”
~Victoria Steele Logue, Redemption
15. “For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
~ Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
16. “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, When Ali Met Honour
17. “The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.”
~ Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry To Gabriola
18. “It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.”
~ Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
19. “Nothing dies as beautifully as autumn.”
~ Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass
20. “Autumn is the time of balance and of sacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a time when night takes over and brings the coming winter. The ancient wisdom says that those who long for light must face their inner darkness and overcome it.”
~ Tony Riches, The Secret Diary of Eleanor Cobham
21. “It’s a beautiful fall day. Gentle wind teases stubborn autumn leaves. Some defy the gentle wind and sway. A taunting dance. Come with me and look at the magnificence of the last dance.”
~ Fidelis O. Mkparu, Love’s Affliction
22. “Autumn teaches us a valuable lesson. During summer, all the green trees are beautiful. But there is no time of the year when the trees are more beautiful than when they are different colors. Diversity adds beauty to our world.”
~ Donald L. Hicks, Look Into the Stillness
23. “The leaves drifted silently to the ground in the crisp autumn air. I inhaled deeply, the smell of burning bonfires far, far away enchanting my nostrils. Autumn had come early this year and I was excited for the change in colors that had already begun to take over the trees of the forest that surrounded Grandmother’s house.”
~ Emma Rose Kraus, A Blue One
Comment one of your favorite memories that happened during the Autumn season!
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