137 Inspiring Fall Quotes & Sayings to Embrace the Season

Fall is finally here! The smell of fresh-baked apple pies, pumpkin spice everything, hayrides, bonfires, corn mazes, and colorful autumn leaves. Halloween and Thanksgiving are just around the corner, and the beauty and bounty of nature are indisputable.

The sounds, sights, and scents of autumn have long been a source of inspiration — but don’t take our word for it. When trying to craft the perfect summation to this vibrant season, tap into these fall sayings and quotes to add the perfect sentiment to your autumn decor, scrapbook, letters, and greeting cards.

From classic and timeless aphorisms to witty epigrams and trendy hashtags, you’ll be sure to find the perfect words to capture your favorite things about the harvest season., incorporate them in your home décor on rustic wooden signs and wall art, shelf and mantel decorations, throw pillows, blankets, welcome mats, garden flags and other decorative pieces.

Fall sayings for home decor

1. Gobble ’Til You Wobble
2. Pumpkins, Cider, Hayrides & S’mores
3. Happy Fall, Y’all
4. I Love Fall Most of All
5. Fall Breeze & Autumn Leaves
6. Cutest Apple in the Orchard
7. Pumpkin Kisses & Harvest Wishes
8. This Way to the Pumpkin Patch
9. The Pick of the Patch
10.  Pumpkins, Apples & Hayrides, Oh My!
11.  Autumn Leaves & Pumpkins Please
12.  Autumn Skies & Apple Pies
13.  That Autumn Life
14.  Autumn Is My Favorite Color
15.  Leaves Are Falling, Autumn Is Calling
16.  Autumn Days Are Here Again
17.  Smells Like Autumn
18.  Autumn’s Splendor

Halloween sayings for home decor

19. Here for the Boos
20.  Home Sweet Haunted Home
21.  Eat, Drink & Be Scary
22.  It’s Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus
23.  Witch Better Have My Candy!
24.  A Haunted Home Is a Happy Home
25.  Witches, Goblins & Ghouls, Oh My!
26.  Welcome, Foolish Mortals
27.  Home of the Wicked Witch, Her Little Monsters, and One Handsome Devil
28.  A Wicked Witch and a Grumpy Old Toad Live Here
29.  ‘Tis the Most Spooktacular Time of the Year

Thanksgiving sayings for home decor

30.  Thankful, Grateful, Blessed
31.  Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart
32.  Eat, Drink & Be Thankful
33.  In Everything Give Thanks
34.  Forever Grateful
35.  For This Family We Are Grateful
36.  Thankful for Every Moment
37.  Gather Grateful Hearts
38.  Harvest Blessings
39.  Thankful and Grateful, Today and Every Day
40.  Let Our Hearts Be Filled With Thanks and Giving

Pumpkin spice sayings for home decor

41. Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
42.  ‘Tis the Pumpkin Spice Season
43.  Happy Pumpkin Spice Season
44.  Pumpkin Spice Is My Favorite Season
45.  My Blood Type Is Pumpkin Spice
46.  Fueled by Coffee & Pumpkin Spice
47.  Pumpkin Is the Spice of Life
48.  Let’s Pumpkin Spice Things up a Bit
49.  That Pumpkin Spice Life

Fun fall puns

50. Oh my gourd, I love fall!
51.  Hello, gourdgeous!
52.  Live apple-y ever after.
53.  In pie we crust.
54.  Excuse me while I kiss this pie.
55.  I only have pies for you.
56.  Beauty is in the pie of the beholder.
57.  Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about.
58.  I love pumpkin spice a latte.
59.  Go big or gourd home.
60.  Oh my gourdness, it’s autumn!
61.  Life is gourd.
62.  Creep it real.
63.  Pumpkin spice season is finally here…better latte than never!

Fall hashtags

64.  #SquadGhouls
65.  #SquashGoals
66.  #PumpkinEverything
67.  #SweaterWeather
68.  #FallHasArrived
69.  #FallLoveStory
70.  #PumpkinTime
71.  #HelloPumpkin
72.  #RestingWitchFace
73.  #CreepItReal

Fall quotes about leaves

74. “Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me.” – Emily Brontë
75. “There’s nothing quite like autumn in New York. But it’s not only the leaves that change. Something in the air brings out the true colors in everyone.” – “Gossip Girl”
76. “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
77. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” – Delia Owens
78. “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
79. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen
80. “The lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god I agree with the leaves.” – Lucille Clifton
81. “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
82. “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
83. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
84. “How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!” – John Burroughs
85. “Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.” – Dan Millman
86. “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
87. “The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” – Henry Beston
88. “The falling leaves, all over the forest, are protecting the roots of my plants. Only look at what is to be seen, and you will have garden enough, without deepening the soil in your yard. We have only to elevate our view a little to see the whole forest as a garden.” – Henry David Thoreau
89. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” – Joe L. Wheeler

Fall quotes about the new season

90. “Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning
91. “There is a time of year in New York when…even before the first leaf falls…you can feel the seasons click. The air is crisp, the summer is gone. And for the first night in a long time, you need a blanket on your bed.” – Carrie Bradshaw
92. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
93. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” – Raquel Franco
94. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath

Fall quotes about natural beauty

95. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
96. “Why, it’s the climax of the year,—The highest time of living!—Till naturally it’s bursting cheer. Just melts into Thanksgiving.” – Perry Laurence Dunbar
97. “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.” – Humbert Wolfe
98. “It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” – Diana Gabaldon
99. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” – Nova S. Blair
100. “Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness , that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” – Jane Austen
101. “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
102. “The little flowers of yesterday. Have all forgotten May. The last gold leaf turned to brown. The last bright day is grey. The cold of winter comes space. And you have gone away.” – Langston Hughes
103. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J.K. Rowling
104. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
105. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde
106. “I love the autumn — that melancholy season that suits memories so well. When the trees have lost their leaves, when the sky at sunset still preserves the russet hue that fills with gold the withered grass, it is sweet to watch the final fading of the fires that until recently burnt within you.” – Gustave Flaubert
107. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne
108. “Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.” – Lorin Morgan-Richards
109. “Another fall, another turned page.” – Wallace Stegner
110. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” – Jane Hirshfield
111. “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
112. “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” – Faith Baldwin
113. “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
114. “The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” – Rumi
115. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” – Virginia Woolf
116. “November is the pearl-grey month, the changeling between warm crimson October and cold white December, the month when the leaves fall in slow drifting whirls, and the shapes of the trees are revealed, when the earth imperceptibly wakes, and stretches her bare limbs and displays her stubborn unconquerable strength before she settles uneasily into winter. November is secret and silent.” – Alison Uttley
117. “The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air.” – Laura Jaworski
118. “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
119. “I am such an autumn person. Give me a quiet, cozy spot with a simple view of gorgeous trees with colorful leaves on a crisp September day, fuzzy socks, a warm drink, and a good book and I will be in all my glory.” – McKenna Kaelin
120. “That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.” – Ray Bradbury

Fall quotes about renewal

121. “Only lovers / see the fall / a signal end to endings / a gruffish gesture alerting / those who will not be alarmed / that we begin to stop / in order simply / to begin / again.” –Maya Angelou
122. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
123. “I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
124. “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” – Truman Capote
125. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” – Yoko Ono
126. “Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland
127. “Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” – William Wordsworth
128. “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
129. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” – Ann Drake
130. “Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!” – Rusty Fischer
131. “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
132. “The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale.” – Cornelia Tuthill
133. “I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” – Lee Maynard
134. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
135. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” – Samuel Butler
136. “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
137. “There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.” – Toni Morrison