30 Inspiring Quotes for Autumn Journaling or Scrapbooking
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Autumn is a time of letting go and beginning to turn inward. Leaves are falling, the air is crisp, and the world is starting to end its life cycle. We begin to retreat indoors, making it the perfect time to reflect on the coming winter and be grateful for spring and summer’s abundance. Letting go, gathering near, and finding solace within ourselves and our homes is what fall is all about!
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I hope these quotes inspire your journaling or scrapbooking projects and help you see the beauty and wonder of autumn.
Where to use these quotes?
- Journal.
- Scrapbook.
- Print and use for home decor.

29 Best Quotes for Autumn
Here are some of my favorite autumn quotes.
“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” ~Diana Gabaldon, Outlander~
“Oh hushed October morning mild, thy leaves have ripened to the fall; tomorrow’s wind, if be wild, should waste them all.” ~Robert Frost~
“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn when the air is crisp, and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke – like the end and the beginning of something all at once.” ~Lauren Oliver~

“I sit beside the fire and think. Of all that I have seen. Of meadow flowers and butterflies. In summers that have been. Of yellow leaves and gossamer. In autumns that there were. With morning mist and silver sun. And wind upon my hair.”
J.R.R Tolkien
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” ~Winston Graham~
“If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.” ~Shana Chartier~
“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.” ~Unknown~

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” ~Yoko Ono~
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~Henry David Thoreau~
“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, The October Country~
“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~

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
~Joe L. Wheeler~
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves / We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” ~Humbert Wolfe~
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” ~Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse~
“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.” ~Leo Tolstoy~
“Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Autumn~
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall” ~Oscar Wilde~

“Now autumn‘s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
~William Allingham
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” ~Victoria Erickson~
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” ~Emily Brontë~
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ~L. M. Montgomery~
“So clear and sparkling is this autumn night that, with averted vision, I can see quite readily the wraithlike wisps of nebulosity that festoon and enmesh this entire little cluster.” ~Leslie Peltier~
“Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks… They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.” ~Elizabeth Goudge~

“The autumn road, the mellow wind that soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.” ~Rupert Brooke, “The Chilterns”~
~Rupert Brooke, The Chilterns~
“How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky the gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!” ~Thomas Hood~
“The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, a vast balloon.” ~Ted Hughes, “The Harvest Moon”~
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne~
“Of the great harvest I myself desired.” ~Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking”~
“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~

Conclusion
Fall is a time to reflect on all we have done and then let go of all we do not need. Let these quotes inspire your autumn days and keep you creative and hopeful for the season ahead!
Let me know your favorite quote in the comments below!
Stay Cozy & Autumn On!