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Famous fall quotes from song lyrics to philosophy’s best.

It’s fall, and Instagram is suddenly filled with pumpkin spice. (You might be filled with it, too.)

Once summer winds down, fall opens in a shower of colored leaves. Holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving are peeking out through the shelves at the store, and the season settles in as the temperature drops.

Maybe you’re a fan of fall weather, or you love fall food. Whether you’re looking forward to sweaters or pumpkin pie, it’s harvest time for the best fall quotes.

This handpicked collection is organized so you can find the best fall quotes for your projects. Pick your favorites, then use them however you want—remember, it’s easy in Adobe Express, no experience required.

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First Day of Fall Quotes

Fall Leaves Quotes

Fall Family Quotes

Fall Quotes—Inspirational Sayings

Fall Change Quotes

Funny Fall Quotes

Short Fall Quotes

First day of fall quotes for the start of the season.

When fall arrives, you don’t want to waste time. Happy fall quotes recognize the changing season and stir anticipation for the months to come.

You might see the perfect fall quotes for work, or one to use in a card to friends or family. Some of these first day of fall quotes would go well in a poster, too.

Choose your favorite first day of fall quotes to have at the ready when autumn arrives, and see how they set the scene for the crisp charm of the season.

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And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.”
Raquel Franco
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
If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”

Victoria Erickson

Picture this quote on acard with a drawing of a clock adorned by the seasons.

It's time to let go of this endless summer afternoon.”

Lorde, “Hard Feelings”

If you’re especially ready for summer to be over, this song lyric fits the mood perfectly.

By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”

Helen Hunt Jackson

Crossing that threshold from summer to fall has a unique magic.

Fall, go on and fall apart. Fall into these arms of mine, I'll catch you every time.”

Clay Walker, “Fall”

This song isn’t technically about autumn, but it’s a lovely play on words that can double as an open invitation for fall to commence.

Through the trees comes autumn with her serenade.”
Harry James, “Autumn Serenade”
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
Elizabeth Bowen
A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”

Unattributed

A short start of fall quote like this one fits easily onto a banner to hang at the start of autumn.

Autumn in New York. The gleaming rooftops at sundown. Oh, autumn in New York. It lifts you up when you run down.”
Ella Fitzgerald, “Autumn in New York”
The tints of autumn … a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

When the garden flowers are still in the garden bed, but they awake to a crystal coat of frost, you know fall has arrived.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
Samuel Butler
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Fall leaves quotes for a burst of color in your next project.

One of the defining images of autumn is a landscape filled with falling leaves, each a different color, waltzing as they descend. Even for people in areas without deciduous trees, it’s easy to imagine children playing in leaf piles and the trees slowly undressing as the weather cools.

History’s poets and songwriters have been particularly inspired by fall leaves over the ages. Famous fall quotes capture their beauty in countless metaphors and personifications.

Fall color quotes bring a warm tinge to your day, so use them freely. When the leaves are turning, these fall weather quotes capture their beauty in inspiring ways.

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Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Emily Brontë
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

Albert Camus

Surround this quote with images of fall foliage in a photo collage and it could make a great gift.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

John Burroughs

The metaphors around fall leaves and the cycle of the trees that drop them represent age, release, and renewal.

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
The falling leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of red and gold.”

Joseph Kosma, “Autumn Leaves”

The 1945 song “Autumn Leaves” was adapted from a French poem written the year before. Its lyrics are so beautiful and so relatable to any lover of autumn that it’s been commercially recorded more than 1,000 times.

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”

Elizabeth Lawrence

This quote is often shortened, dropping the first line: “even if something is left undone.” This part is key, though. We must take the time, even at the cost of something else.

The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.”
Humbert Wolfe
And the leaves that are green turn to brown, and they wither with the wind, and they crumble in your hand.”
Simon and Garfunkel, “Leaves That Are Green”
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
The heart of autumn must have broken here and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”

Charlotte Bates

What more beautiful quote is there to use on a colorful poster or flyer of anything fall-related?

Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Autumn leaves are often said to be “dancing.” How might you show that in a project?

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Fall family quotes for time together under the harvest moon.

With fall comes more time indoors, beautiful though the autumn weather is. We huddle together against the cold and remember how delightful it is to snuggle someone in a sweater.

Fall family quotes tap into the nostalgia of home in autumn, plus the events that act as bookmarks through the harvest months. Halloween and Thanksgiving, after all, are occasions we remember with family.

Then, there are the fall love quotes, the lingering lines that bring warmth to our hearts as well as our hearths.

Choose your favorite fall family quotes to savor the many delights of an autumn together.

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

Ann Drake

One common aroma of home in the fall is fresh pumpkin pie.

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

L.M. Montgomery

Adult family members who are fans of fall weather and young family members who are fans of Halloween will agree on this.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
Sarah Addison Allen
But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”

Joseph Kosma, “Autumn Leaves”

The change of season and the arrival of fall holidays can leave us missing loved ones who live far away. This quote could go in a card to say, “missing you.”

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, You’ve Got Mail

Whether or not you have kids at home, part of fall means back to school for families, if only in the scent of graphite at the store.

A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie.”
Margaret Junkin Preston
Sweater weather is better together.”

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There’s nothing quite like snuggling with family when everyone’s in cozy sweaters.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
Joe L. Wheelerde
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
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies.”

Sharon Kay Penman

Our memories of our childhood homes—wherever they are—tend to include the richest fall landscapes of our lives.

Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature's trick or treat.”
Rusty Fischer
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Fall quotes—inspirational sayings to squirrel away.

Motivational fall quotes borrow in a big way from the metaphors that fall is known for. The changing leaves, so beautiful as they die, and the hibernation that awaits both make us reflect. Positive fall quotes look at the cyclical nature of fall as part of a bigger picture to put other things in perspective—whatever we use it to represent.

Inspirational fall quotes aren’t just for autumn, either. You can save some, use them on posters, share them in cards, and compile them in collages to tap into the inspiration anytime.

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Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year's end and day's beginnings.”
Terri Guillemets
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

Henry David Thoreau

If you’d rather be outside in the fall (or any day of the year), you might relate to these handpicked nature quotes, too.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”

Stanley Horowitz

This imaginary gallery would look amazing on a card or poster that uses this quote.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”

Faith Baldwin

Autumn is personified in this quote in an extraordinary way.

There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn.”

Ayana Mathis

What else do you feel only exists during fall? A certain feel of the air? A particular sequence of sounds?

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
In the quivering forest, where the shivering dog rests, our good grandfather built a wooden nest. And the river got frozen, and the hole got snowed in, and the yellow moon glowed bright till the morning light.”
Fleet Foxes, “Blue Ridge Mountains”
If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.”

George Eliot

This fall inspiration quote calls to mind one of the characteristic sights of autumn: migrating birds.

Pale amber sunlight falls across / The reddening October trees / That hardly sway before a breeze / As soft as summer: summer’s loss / Seems little, dear on days like these.”
Ernest Dowson, Autumnal
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”

Carol Bishop Hipps

No autumn is complete without leaf-kicking.

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
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Fall change quotes to turn a new leaf.

When it’s time to batten down the hatches for fall, it might seem like life suddenly stagnates. The pending winter is inescapable.

Outdoors, though, the leaves change. They fall, and the ground and plants change with them. The air becomes progressively crisper, like the crunchy apples harvested for all that cider.

Fall vibe quotes highlight these changes and suggest that change could be due elsewhere, too.

If there’s something in your life that needs to change, what better time than fall? Use these fall change quotes to tap into inspiration and insight wrapped into memorable sound bites. These are good for cards and personal letters if you know someone who needs a push. They’re also perfect to save for your own inspiration.

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I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”

Anna Madsen

We don’t always know what change will bring, but if it’s coming anyway, why not be excited about it?

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fall is an end, but it’s also a beginning.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves …”
Virginia Woolf
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.”
George Eliot
Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

William Wordsworth

If the “faded woods” are something you want to change, dance to the music of those autumnal winds of change.

Autumn changes, shifting phases. Autumn changes, turning stages.”
Donna Summer, “Autumn Changes”
Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether you’re a fan of fall weather or not, the season does tend to box us into spaces of quiet and the resultant introspection.

Go, sit upon the lofty hill / And turn your eyes around / Where waving woods and waters wild / Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them—The summer flowers depart / Sit still / as all transform’d to stone / Except your musing heart.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Autumn
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”

Truman Capote

Whether fall is the beginning or the end depends which direction you’re looking from.

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

Jane Hirshfield, The Heat of Autumn

Which would you rather have?

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Funny fall quotes to warm the chilly air.

Funny fall quotes are just as amusing for fans of fall as they are for those who already miss summer.

Cute fall quotes cover everything from our obsession with pumpkin spice to the dancing of dead leaves. Choose your favorite and think of how much fun you can have using them in cards, social media, posters for work, and more.

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Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
Katie Nicole Felton
Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”

Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

This is sage advice that should be posted somewhere in every school.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
Chad Sugg
The weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

Unattributed

This seems to be especially true in the Midwest.

I'd say the first thing you need is … a pumpkin.”

Cinderella

For carving, eating, or turning into a magical carriage, this is always the right answer.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”

Hal Borland

Here's a funny quote that pokes fun at how we all turn to poets every autumn.

Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
Shira Tamir
Autumn’s the mellow time.”
William Allingham
Fall: the time of year when my coffee order transforms into a mini dessert.”

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Is there any point in still calling it “coffee?”

Pumpkin spice lattes are eggnog for morning people.”
John Oliver
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.”

David Letterman

When you remember how many people live in areas without the quintessential changing leaves, all that’s left to say is, “oh, bummer for you.”

The Autumn is old; the sere leaves are flying; he hath gather’d up gold, and now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing.”
Thomas Hood
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Short fall quotes as easy as an autumn breeze.

Use these fall quotes, short but brilliant, in any project with a character limit—or when you just want to get to the punch. Simple fall quotes are unpretentious and highly relatable. They take one idea, say it brilliantly, and then you’re on your autumnal way.

Especially convenient for banners and social media posts, take your pick of these fall quotes and think of how many ways you can put them to use.

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Autumn … the year's last, loveliest smile.”
William Cullen Bryant
There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky …”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are qualities to fall that don’t exist any other time of the year.

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

Oscar Wilde

This is such a visceral way to describe the seasons’ transition.

The autumn moon lights my way.”
Led Zeppelin, “Ramble On”
Another fall, another turned page …”

Wallace Stegner

You can both welcome fall and bid it goodbye with this short, simple fall quote.

Be like a tree, and let the dead leaves drop.”

Rumi

This short, commanding quote can make a great mantra, too.

But I'm just not that lonesome and autumn's not that cold.”
Lorrie Morgan, “Autumn’s Not That Cold”
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.”
Yoko Ono
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”

Rémy de Gourmont

This quote is joyful, sweet, and a little sinister.

It’s autumn in New York; It’s good to live again.”
Ella Fitzgerald, “Autumn in New York”
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

Jim Bishop

Between golden afternoon sun, golden leaves, and golden apples, there’s an argument to be made here.

I come alive in the fall time.”
The Weeknd, “Starboy”
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Tips to make famous fall quotes yours.

Nearly half of Americans say that fall is their favorite season, which is why your Instagram feed is suddenly filled with pumpkin spice, sweaters, and fall colors each September.

With the popularity of the season, it’s unsurprising that these fall quotes have become so famous. They’ve also been used a lot.

You can still get attention with these fall quotes if you use them in ways people don’t expect. Were you going to caption an Instagram picture with one of these? Instead, could you consider:

Exercise: A quick response test to pick the perfect fall quotes.

Once you have a short list of your favorite fall quotes, how do you know which to choose for a given project?

You can try this:

  1. Ask yourself what emotion you want to evoke in the person or people who will see the quote.
  2. Then, read each of your favorite quotes aloud. Think about what emotional response each one evokes in you.
  3. The quote that elicits the response that’s strongest or closest to what you’re after is the best fall quote for your project.

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite fall quotes to work. If you want to use fall quotes in cards, letters, posters, banners, photo collages, flyers, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.

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