15 Quotes to Get You Excited for Fall’s Arrival

The days are getting shorter and there’s a slight chill in the air … can you feel it? Fall is just around the corner. It is a season that is romanticized by many and one we all look forward to — for very good reasons. It is a season of transformation … when the weather shifts and paints the world in stunning hues of crimson and gold.

The arrival of fall means ushering in the cozy season with nights spent by the fireplace chatting and laughing with loved ones and days filled with simple yet charming activities like apple picking and visits to the pumpkin patch. As the world basks in a golden glow, our days can’t help but feel a little more magical. Is it any wonder we all happily anticipate this season and welcome it with open arms?

Quotes to Get You Excited for Fall’s Arrival

1. “Autumn is a place where words fall short. It is a magic that must be felt, breathed, experienced, and treasured.”
   — Laura Jaworski
2. “October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts, and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.”
   — Ken Weber
3. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
   — Victoria Erickson
4. “Autumn is a vintage soul. She colors each leaf with wisdom’s gold.”
   — Angie Welland-Crosby
5. “I believe in the power of a fiery autumn to dazzle my senses and fill my soul with enough brilliant beauty to last me through the grays and whites of the chilly winter days that lie ahead.”
   — Ginny Yurich
6. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
   — Sarah Addison Allen
7. “For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
   — Katarina Bivald
8. “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
9. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … 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
10. “Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.”
    — Shauna Niequist
11. “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
12. “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
13. “Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
    — Mehmet Murat Ildan
14. “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
15. “When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
    — VV Brown

Discover delightful ways to welcome autumn in Bella Grace Issue 41.