Jeff Isy

10 Quotes That Perfectly Describe Our Unapologetically Basic Obsession With Fall

Something in the air changes; something in our heart changes. October is such a gift.
Bianca Sparacino
September 22, 2016
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Tagged: Autumn Love
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
— Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)
Tagged: Autumn Love
“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, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Tagged: Autumn Love
“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 (Chemical Garden)
Tagged: Autumn Love
“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, The Madness Vase: By Andrea Gibson
Tagged: Autumn Love
“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.”
— William Cullen Bryant, Poems By William Cullen Bryant (Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Autumn Love
“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, Salem's Lot
Tagged: Autumn Love
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: Autumn Love
“Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Tagged: Autumn Love
“In the fall, I believe again in poetry”
— Jaakko A. Ahokas, A History of Finnish Literature
Tagged: Autumn Love