Beautiful Quotes to Take You Through Autumn
“Autumn has arrived. I hear it in the whispering of leaves.” – Anujj Elviis
It’s here! That glorious time of year… Autumn. Fall is a transitional season that ushers us from the long, hot, dog days of summer to the hustle and bustle of the holidays.
It calls us to pump the brakes and slow down long enough to witness the splendor of nature in all its glory. The leaf display itself is worthy of ticket sales, like museum art, but it’s free! And everywhere!
The breeze ushers in the cooler temperatures that spur us to dig out the sweaters and cute boots we’ve been waiting for months to reclaim.
And, yes, everything has pumpkin spice in it now…but I really have no good reason or metaphor for that.
Autumn signals a change from one season to the next. It represents moving out of a comfortable zone to a new unexplored destination.
For a lot of us, change can be hard, but Fall is proof that change can also be beautiful.
The leaves let go of the green they’ve been clinging to all summer, and finally reveal the spectacular color they were always meant to be.
The trees themselves shed those leaves, things that may possibly be weighing them down after many months of feeding them. Without the cover and security of the leaves the trees have been giving their life force to since springtime, they can focus on their center, and work on strengthening their very core for a while.
Think of it as “Tree self-care”.
In the spring, they will be ready to share their energy with a new set of leaves and the cycle will begin again.
Does this resonate with you? (hint: You’re the tree.)
Maybe this is a good time to slow down and let go of things you have been carrying for a long time. Maybe this is the perfect opportunity to focus on your center and gather your strength for the next adventure of life.
Read these beautiful Autumnal quotes and choose a few to carry you through the season. Fall is brief, blink and you might miss it. Take the time to slow down and look around you. Then look in you and give yourself what you need.
Beautiful Quotes to Take You Through Autumn
“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
“Happiness is a crackling fire, a cozy book, a cup of hot cocoa, and an Autumnal nook.” – Angie Weiland-Crosby
“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
“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
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
“Another Fall, another turned page.” – Wallace Stegner
“Of all the seasons, Autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a Summer’s wave goodbye.” – Unknown
“I loved Autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” – Lee Maynard
“Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.” – Unknown
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then Autumn would be the magic hour.” – Victoria Erickson
“I can smell Autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.” – Ann Drake
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” – Unknown
“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and Autumn was awakened.” – Raquel Franco
“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our Summer evenings; now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe
“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
“Autumn whispered to the wind, “I fall; but always rise again.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, and Autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burroughs
“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” – Delia Owens
“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
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” – Shira Tamir
“October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“And all at once, Summer collapsed into Fall…” – Oscar Wilde
“Dancing of the Autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of Autumn leaves.” – Joe L. Wheeler
“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
“See it, smell it, taste it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.” – Hal Borland
“In Autumn, more can change than just the leaves.” – Louise M
“For man, Autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.” – Edwin Way Teale
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.” – Mary Russell Mitford
“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
“It was a beautiful bright Autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
– Diana Gabaldon (Outlander)
“There is a harmony in Autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the Summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The heart of Autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” – Charlotte Bates
“Autumn! The greatest show of all times!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Life is like an Autumn; short but colorful.” – Zain Baloch
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” – Robert Browning
“Wild is the music of the Autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” – William Wordsworth
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn repays the earth the leaves which Summer lent it.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” – Winston Graham
“No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one Autumnal face.” – John Donne
“Is not this a true Autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love- that makes life and nature harmonize.” – George Eliot
“A tangerine and russet cascade of kaleidoscopic leaves creates a tapestry of Autumn magic upon the emerald carpet of fading Summer.” – Judith A. Lindberg
“Autumn. Time to dim the sunlight, cue the moody fog, & watch nature’s most charming story unfold.” – Angie Weiland-Crosby
Learning the Lessons of Autumn
Autumn is a beautiful season. The metaphors for how fall is like life (and midlife) are too numerous to count, but they’re good.
Nature is constantly trying to teach us life lessons, and it’s good for your soul to consider them, especially in autumn.
Listen to the trees. Let go. Rest. Recharge.
You are one of the most incredible creations of nature, and you are worthy of every bit of self-care you require to live your fullest potential, to be the woman you were always meant to be.
Autumn goes quickly, my beautiful friend, and so does midlife.
Take a deep breath, look around you, and then look inside you.
Take care of your beautiful soul and release the splendor in you.
I know that you will, because you are positively limitless.
