Autumn quotes from books are the topic of our blog post today!
There’s a unique sense of melancholy and magic that only fall can bring, and no one captures it better than our favorite authors. From the golden hues of falling leaves to the crisp air that smells like nostalgia, the essence of autumn has been wonderfully immortalized in literature.
Today, we’re embracing the coziness of the season with a curated collection of Autumn quotes from books that encapsulate all the emotions this time of year stirs up in us (for more chec out best Fall Quotes post). Let’s delve into this literary journey through autumn—a season that, as Lauren DeStefano so eloquently put it, bursts “with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
Related: Best Fall Reading Books for Kids
Autumn Quotes from Books
These bookish quotes capture the essence of fall in a way that only the masters of the written word can. Let’s dive in and discover how some of literature’s greats have eloquently encapsulated the spirit of this much-loved season:
“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, A Moveable Feast
“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” —Diana Gabaldon, “Outlander”
“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”- Rusty Fischer
“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, Wither
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. 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, ‘Salem’s Lot
“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
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“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, Wither
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“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
“Autumn was her happiest season.” —Harper Lee, “Go Set a Watchman”
“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, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
“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
Final thoughts
There we have it—a literary bouquet of fall quotes that I hope has added a layer of richness to your appreciation of this incredible season. Whether these quotes evoke a sense of nostalgia or inspire you to seize the beauty of autumn in your own way, remember that each one carries the weight of a pen that has touched paper to describe a feeling many of us share but find hard to articulate.
