150 Cute Fall Quotes To Welcome The Most Colorful Season

It’s that time of the year again, the magical time of colors and scents – autumn!

To welcome another beautiful fall season, I’ve prepared a list of 150 cute fall quotes that capture the beauty of golden leaves and chill autumn nights.

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Author’s Choice: 10 Cute Fall Quotes

1. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson

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2. “Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.” — Mary Russell Mitford

3. “Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant

4. “A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” — Winnie the Pooh

5. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” ― Sarah Addison Allen

Image of yellow autumn leaves representing the cutest fall quote.

6. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus

7. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” ― John Donne

8. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë

9. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz

10. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde

Vibrant yellow leaves representing the best cute fall quote.

Beautiful Quotes About Fall

1. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” — Vincent Van Gogh

Leaves in golden hues representing fall colors quote.

2. “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

3. “Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.” — Dan Millman

4. “As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death, too, can be a beautiful thing.” — Nikita Gill

5. “In Heaven, it is always Autumn.” ― John Donne

6. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run.” — John Keats

7. “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs

8. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ― Henry David Thoreau

9. “God blows on the leaves, they turn to gold, and we call it autumn.” — Joyce Rachelle

10. “And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.” ― William Cullen Bryant

Fallen autumn leaves decorate the white background.

11. “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

12. “I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.” — Henry David Thoreau

13. “The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn’t ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.” ― Elizabeth Coatsworth

14. “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” — Siobhan Vivian

15. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf

Nature's mosaic leaves scattered in disarray.

16. “Even those fallen leaves dance, on the musical wind cadence.” — Anoushka Tyagi

17. “The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.” ― Elizabeth Gaskell

18. “But when fall comes … it settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.” — Stephen King

19. “Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” — Walter Scott

20. “It’s autumn in New York; It’s good to live again.” — Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Fall's spectrum captured in leaves' brilliance.

21. “There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

22. “An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining…” ― Francis Brett Young

23. “I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there’s beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.” — Helen Baxendale

24. “The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying… Old age, begin sighing.” — Thomas Hood

25. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” ― Jane Hirshfield

Color burst autumn leaves paint scenery.

Cute Fall Quotes To Welcome New Season

1. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” ― Samuel Butler

2. “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.” ― Angela Carter

3. “Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.” ― Charles Nodier

4. “Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home. Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year.” — Henry Rollins

5. “Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” — Elizabeth Lawrence

6. “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

7. “Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us…” ― Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

8. “I love the autumn—that melancholy season that suits memories so well. When the trees have lost their leaves, when the sky at sunset still preserves the russet hue that fills with gold the withered grass, it is sweet to watch the final fading of the fires that until recently burnt within you.” ― Gustave Flaubert

9. “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

10. “Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” — Terri Guillemets

11. “Flowers, cold from the dew,

And autumn’s approaching breath,

I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,

Which haven’t faded yet.” — Anna Akhmatova

12. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens

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

14. “Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” — Terri Guillemets

15. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ― Jim Bishop

16. “October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.” — Ken Weber

17. “Never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.” — Federico García Lorca

18. “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

19. “I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.” — Wendy Delsol

20. “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham

Forest trees unfurl a rainbow of colors.

21. “But you can’t plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves.” ― Yevgeny Zamyatin

22. “The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

23. “The first flash of color always excites me as much as the first frail, courageous bloom of spring. This is, in a sense, my season–sometimes warm and, when the wind blows an alert, sometimes cold.” — Faith Baldwin

24. “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

25. “No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.” — Samuel Johnson

Woodland in full autumnal splendor glows.

Cute Fall Quotes For Inspiration

1. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nature's beauty golden leaves on display.

2. “I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” — Dodinsky

3. “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

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

5. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Golden leaves representing happy fall quote.

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

7. “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” ― Ernest Hemingway

8. “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” — Charlotte Bates

9. “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” — Nora Ephron

10. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery

Vibrant autumn leaves representing October quote.

11. “My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke – like the end and the beginning of something all at once.” — Lauren Oliver

12. “She loved the fall, all the sun-faded colors of summer repainted by vivid reds and golds still clinging fragilely to branches that would soon be covered with snow.” — Naomi Ragen

13. “I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.” — Michael Caine

14. “There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.” — Toni Morrison

15. “See it, smell it, taste it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.” — Hal Borland

Nature's gold leaves signal fall's arrival.

16. “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

17. “The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

18. “Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” — Shauna Niequist

19. “Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.” ― Sharon Kay Penman

20. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” — Ann Drake

Leaves of gold representing ready for fall quote.

21. “Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

22. “It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues.” — Bill Bryson

23. “The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air.” ― Laura Jaworski

24. “He couldn’t stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn.” ― Elizabeth Enright

25. “If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” — George Eliot

Nature's carpet yellow leaves cover ground.

Cute Fall Vibes Quotes

1. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.” — George Eliot

Relaxing beneath the golden hues of autumn.

2. “October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

3. “I see the turning of a leaf dancing in the autumn sun, and brilliant shades of crimson glowing when the day is done.” — Hazelmarie “Mattie” Elliott

4. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau

5. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” ― Joe L. Wheeler

Person enjoys nature's embrace under yellow autumn tree.

6. “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

7. “Nothing dies as beautifully as autumn.” — Ashlee Willis

8. “Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.” ― Leo Tolstoy

9. “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

10. “Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!” — Rusty Fischer

Nature's beauty frames person under golden tree.

11. “Autumn is grey rainy afternoons, and fond memories of raking up leaves into tidy neat piles, just to jump in and spread them around again.” — Jason Soroski

12. “…he could feel hot tears coming to his eyes as the image of that night, outside the house as the November wind blew black leaves up off the ground and the sky turned colors like bruised flesh.” ― David Nickle

13. “The leaves turn color, the grasses wither; the beasts sense the advance of a long, hungry season. And bowing to their vision, I too know a sadness.” — Haruki Murakami

14. “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

15. “The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” ― E.M. Forster

Individual seeks solace under a yellow autumn tree.

16. “There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow.” — Rudolfo Anaya

17. “Now autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods, and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.” — William Allingham

18. “When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in autumn!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

19. “The goldenrod is yellow,

The corn is turning brown…

The trees in apple orchards

With fruit are bending down.” ― Helen Hunt Jackson

20. “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” — Diana Gabaldon

Tranquil moment under yellow fall tree branches.

21. “She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine …” ― Virginia Woolf

22. “May you Fall in love with October

and all the beauty it brings,

May your life be as colorful as

the turning of the leaves,

On each blessed autumn day” ― Charmaine J. Forde

23. “Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

24. “Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people’s breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started – renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it.” ― Harper Lee

25. “She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft fall rains.” — Grace Willows

Person finds respite under yellow autumn foliage.

Cute Autumn Quotes To Uplift You

1. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Golden trees turn park into autumn masterpiece.

2. “The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier

3. “Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.” ― Hal Borland

4. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” — Raquel Franco

5. “There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky …” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The park's full of stunning autumn gold hues.

6. “It was the golden time of year. Every day the leaves grew brighter, the air sharper, the grass more brilliant. The sunsets seemed to expand and melt and stretch for hours, and the brick façades glowed pink, and everything got bluer. How many perfect autumns did a person get?” ― Elif Batuman

7. “There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky …” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. “Soon it will be autumn and we haven’t the power to keep a single leaf from falling.” ― Marty Rubin

9. “I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candlelight, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen. ” ― Jean Webster

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

Golden trees make the park a fall paradise.

11. “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” ― Remy de Gourmont

12. “The tints of autumn … a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

13. “The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” — J.D. Salinger

14. “The occasional orange leaf still dangled from a branch as the wind tugged and pulled at the stem. Was Autumn so fond of this season because of her name? Perhaps it was that. Or the sunsets.” ― Justice Tilsher

15. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz

Park's beauty shines through its golden trees.

16. “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” — Faith Baldwin

17. “When leaves have to let go of the tree, they wear their best colors and they dance all the way to the ground.” — Karen Kingsbury

18. “Summer dashed off, her sundress flowing with greens; while autumn slipped into a gown with jeweled seams.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

19. “After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth … The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her … In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.” — Elizabeth George Speare

20. “And the sunsets of Autumn – are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry?” — Charles Lanman

The park becomes magical with golden autumn trees.

Fall Quotes To Broaden Your Horizons

1. “Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” — Hal Borland

Gorgeous golden flowers bloom in autumn's embrace.

2. “Autumn is the time of year when Mother Nature says, ‘Look how easy, how healthy and how beautiful letting go can be.’” — Toni Sorenson

3. “Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” — Robert Browning

4. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” — B. C. Forbes

5. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg

Nature's gold vibrant autumn flowers in bloom.

6. “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.” — Andrew Wyeth

7. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield

8. “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

9. “Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.” ― Umberto Eco

10. “The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale.” — Cornelia L. Tuthill

11. “It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” ― P.D. James

12. “Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses her face, and the echo of your faintest cry becomes a spring and an autumn in her breast.” — Khalil Gibran

13. “If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.” — Kyle Lake

14. “Autumn is the best season in which to sniff, and to sniff for pleasure, for this is the season of universal pungency.” — Bertha Damon

15. “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” — Shira Tamir

Golden autumn flowers representing a quote about leaves.

16. “I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colors richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colors, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death.” — Lin Yutang

17. “Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.” — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

18. “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

19. “The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It’s a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you’ve got in as many supplies as you can. It’s nice to gather together everything you possess as close to you as possible, to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core of safety where you can defend what is important and precious and your very own. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their worst. They can grope their way up the walls looking for a way in, but they won’t find one, everything is shut, and you sit inside, laughing in your warmth and your solitude, for you have had foresight.” — Tove Jansson

20. “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?” — Mo Yan

Autumn flowers in a lovely golden color.

Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed this collection of cute fall quotes. Happy autumn!