The leaves are changing color, the air is getting cooler, and pumpkin spice everything is starting to pop up in stores. Yes, it’s finally fall! This is a time of year when many people feel a sense of nostalgia. The days are shorter and the weather is crisper – it’s just a wonderful time to be alive. As we head into the month of October, we wanted to share some quotes that will help you get in the fall mood!
October Quotes
- “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde
- “October baseball is what it’s all about.” – James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
- “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” – Bonaro W. Overstreet
- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
- “Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day!” – Rusty Fischer
- “A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.” – Nitya Prakash
- “You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.” – Karel Capek
- “October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…” – John Nichols
- “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” – Nova Bair
- “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” – W. S. Merwin
- “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
- “The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…” – A.A. Milne
- “Twilight, even remembered twilight, is better than no light at all.” – China Miéville
- “I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” – Charmaine J. Forde
- “Everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
- “Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” – William Wordsworth
- “The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” – Florence Bone
- “October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.” – Joy Fielding
- “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- “Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland
- “It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.” – Melody Lee
- “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” – Charmaine J Forde
- “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
- “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” – Charmaine J. Forde
- “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burroughs
- “October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” – Keith Donohue
- “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” – Ann Drake
- “In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” – Alexander Smith
- “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” – Virginia Woolf
- “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
- “October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins…. Merry October!” — Rainbow Rowell
- “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things.”
- “This tree must be falling for me, as soon as I sat under it, it dropped its leaves. Oh sweet October!” – Charmaine J Forde
- “October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” – John Sinor
- “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture -month.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple -flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” – Leif Enge
- “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe
- “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
- “What could be more exciting than an October day? It’s your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.” – Peggy Toney Horton
- “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf -kicking perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” – Carol Bishop Hipps
- “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
- “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things.” – Jacqueline Woodson
- “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
- “O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” – Helen Hunt Jackson
- “The wind grew cold. The leaves turned red. The bark turned red. The soil turned red. The stars turned red. Something was wrong with October.” – T.R. Darling
- “In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” – John Burroughs
- “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “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’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” – Winnie the Pooh Pooh’s Grand Adventure
- “October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.” – Thomas Merton
- “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” – Peggy Toney Horton
- “You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” – Katherine Arden
- “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
- “October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.” – Hal Borland
- “ ‘Only today,’ he said, ‘today, in October sun, it’s all gold—sky and tree and water. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold.’ “– Eudora Welty, The Wide Net and Other Stories
- “You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” – Katherine Arden, Small Spaces
- “The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine -and -fifty swans.” – W.B. Yeats
- “October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” – Sarah Guillory
- “All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” – Thomas Wolfe
- “October turned my maple’s leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig’s weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- “October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.” – Peggy Toney Hortons
- “As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the trees in our orchard, but it is as though all things pomological ripen in me, too.” – Monty Don
- “The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts – we have learned only recently how close we were to war – but I knew enough to make me tremble.” – Joseph Rotblat
- “September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “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!…Merry October!” – Rainbow Rowell
- “In October 2014, for the first time in almost three -quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho.” – Lydia Millet
- “After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.” – Naomi Wolf
- “The stock market crash in October 1929 didn’t destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.” – Christina Romer
Wrapping Up
October is a beautiful month. It’s the time of year when nature puts on its most vibrant show, and it’s also a month of reflection and remembrance. Whether you’re enjoying the brilliant colors of fall foliage, the crisp autumn air, or the stories of courage and resilience from years past, October is a month to be celebrated. So take some time this month to enjoy all that October has to offer!
