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Embrace Fall

by Maria Gracia Updated August 31, 2024 Join our newsletter to be notified when new content is added to our website. As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisper, autumn offers us a moment to pause and appreciate the beauty of change. This season is not just about falling leaves and cozy sweaters; it’s a reminder to let go of what no longer serves us, just as trees shed their leaves. In the spirit of embracing this time of transition, here are 20 quotes that capture the essence of fall, from the warmth of a crackling fire to the reflective moments that this season invites. "Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do." (Ka’ala) "Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker." (Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown) "Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love that makes life and nature harmonize." (George Eliot) "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." (Emily Brontë) "Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have." (Unknown) "Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn." (Elizabeth Lawrence) "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) "It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon." (Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost) "That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… 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, Angle of Repose) "September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn." (Rowland E. Robinson) "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." (John Donne) "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby) "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." (George Eliot) "How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." (John Burroughs) "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." (Jim Bishop) "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." (Albert Camus) "There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves." (Joe L. Wheeler) "Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” (Elizabeth Lawrence) "The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost." (John Greenleaf Whittier) "Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Back to Motivational Quotes Index