With leaves glowing in shades of amber and gold, there is something quietly dazzling about autumn. It's got the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and new schoolbags, no matter what your age. These great authors and filmmakers have captured the magic of autumn perfectly in these quotes about the autumn season.
Best quotes about autumn
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
"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, Persuasion)
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"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." (LM Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables)
"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple." (JK Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows)
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"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, You’ve Got Mail)
"And I rose / In rainy autumn / And walked abroad in a shower of all my days." (Dylan Thomas, Poem In October)
"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)
