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As Fall rolls into the school year, it’s the perfect time to get your students excited to cuddle up with a good book or sip on some hot cocoa alongside a stunning poem. Whether you’re inspiring your budding writers with influential messages or filling your classroom with beautiful pieces of literature, you’ll immerse them in the scenic world of these prominent writers with our collection of 40 Autumn-themed quotes.

1. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus

3. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

4. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” – Emily Brontë

5. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde

6. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant

7. “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”

8. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” – Joe L. Wheeler

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

10. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” – Samuel Butler

11. “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” – Siobhan Vivian, “Same Difference”

12. “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”

13. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne, “The Autumnal”

14. “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burroughs

15. “Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” – William Wordsworth

16. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” – Yoko Ono

17. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

18. “Autumn wins you best by this: its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” – Robert Browning

19. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen, “First Frost”

20. “There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky…” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

21. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” – Nova S. Blair

22. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened.” – Raquel Franco

23. “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

24. “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” – Henry Ward Beecher

25. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop

26. “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

27. “There’s a chill in the air, the sky is ultra-blue, it’s time to take out the sweaters because summer’s through.” – Unknown

28. “The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.” – Dean Koontz

29. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.” – George Eliot

30. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz

31. “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”

32. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau

33. “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”

34. “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” – Rémy de Gourmon

35. “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.” – Rainbow Rowell, “Attachments”

36. “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” – Unknown

37. “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” – Lee Maynard

38. “I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.” – A.M. Barr

39. “It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.” – Robbie Coltrane

40. “There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn.” – Ayana Mathis, “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie”