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October Quotes

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . β€” Charles Dickens

Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind. β€” Margaret Cousins

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. β€” Thomas Wolfe

October and fall quote Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. β€” Edwin Way Teale

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! β€” Humbert Wolfe

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. β€” Richard Dawkins

October and fall quote Our greatest glory is not in never failling but in rising every time we fall.
Our greatest glory is not in never failling but in rising every time we fall.

In the last month, we have been extremely active in speaking to a wide range of potential customers. β€” Bill Miller

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. β€” Carl Sandburg

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. β€” Joseph Rotblat

But in October 2009, an Internet exchange sold 5,050 bitcoins for $5.02, at a price of $1 for 1,006 bitcoins, to register the first purchase of a bitcoin with money. The price was calculated by measuring the value of the electricity needed to produce a bitcoin. β€” Saifedean Ammous

Fall Autumn Quotes

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. β€” John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. β€” John Muir

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. β€” Mary C. Ames

October and fall quote Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. β€” Elinor Wylie

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. β€” Zhuangzi

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall. β€” Johnny Mercer

October and fall quote One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. β€” Emily Bronte

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. β€” Rabindranath Tagore

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon. β€” Sarah Addison Allen

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! β€” Thomas Hood

Autumn Quotes

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. β€” Matsuo Basho

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. β€” Cyril Connolly

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. - Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. β€” Robert Browning

October and fall quote Falling in love is easy but staying in love is very special.
Falling in love is easy but staying in love is very special.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. β€” Aldous Huxley

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. β€” Robert Frost

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know. β€” Mao Zedong

October and fall quote You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. β€” Mason Cooley

There are seven different kinds of weather in one autumn night. β€” Icelandic Proverbs

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. β€” John Cheever

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. β€” Rumi

Autumn And Winter Quotes

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. β€” Chuang Tzu

We feel the chill north winds coarse through the home despite the locked and bolted doors this is winter, which nonetheless brings its own delights. β€” Antonio Vivaldi

Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you’ll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential. β€” Meghan Markle

October and fall quote A child learns to walk and falls down 50 times. He never thinks to himself, "maybe this isn't for me
A child learns to walk and falls down 50 times. He never thinks to himself, "maybe this isn't for me?".

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring. β€” William Browne

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. β€” Yoko Ono

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October. β€” Alexander Smith

October and fall quote Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. β€” Andrew Wyeth

The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near. β€” William Allingham

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods. β€” Henry Beston

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. β€” Faith Baldwin

Fall And Winter Quotes

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. - William Hamilton Gibson

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. β€” William Hamilton Gibson

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. β€” Gustave Flaubert

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. - Calamity Jane

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. β€” Calamity Jane

October and fall quote The more you hide your feelings for someone, the more you fall for them !
The more you hide your feelings for someone, the more you fall for them !

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. β€” Edward Kennedy

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. β€” Ruth Stout

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles. β€” John Gray

October and fall quote Every fall holds a lesson on how to rise.
Every fall holds a lesson on how to rise.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand. β€” Bar Refaeli

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark. β€” John Updike

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist. β€” Benedict Joseph Labre

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. β€” Alice Cary

Autumn Season Quotes

I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face. β€” Kawhi Leonard

True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits. β€” Zhuangzi

My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past. β€” Antoine Griezmann

October and fall quote Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

Even when the four seasons change, I don’t. β€” Lisa Manoban

I take it season by season. I don’t like looking too far ahead, because you never know what can happen. β€” Harry Kane

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. β€” William C. Bryant

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. β€” Eric Sloane

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

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. β€” George Eliot

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth. β€” Denis Waitley

Fall Season Quotes

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. β€” F. Scott Fitzgerald

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. β€” Lauren DeStefano

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall! β€” Robert Louis Stevenson

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. β€” Ernest Hemingway

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. β€” John Keats

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. β€” Thomas Wolfe

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. β€” D. H. Lawrence

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. β€” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. β€” Jim Bishop

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. β€” Lucy Maud Montgomery

Beautiful Autumn Quotes

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. β€” Robert Browning

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret. β€” Alexander Theroux

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves. β€” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. β€” Rabindranath Tagore

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. β€” Vincent Van Gogh

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it. β€” Diana Gabaldon

[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything. β€” Lotte Lenya

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors. β€” Henry Ward Beecher

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. β€” Charles Dickens

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness. β€” Gretel Ehrlich

Autumn Days Quotes

All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green... β€” Ray Bradbury

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. - Walt Whitman

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. β€” Walt Whitman

Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days. β€” Taylor Swift

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. β€” P. D. James

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold. β€” Sigurd F. Olson

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again. β€” Leslie Newman

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. β€” William Allingham

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst. β€” Robert Frost

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South. β€” Laura Ingalls Wilder

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. β€” Alfred Lord Tennyson

Autumn Love Quotes

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves. β€” Vita Sackville-West

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. β€” Monica Baldwin

When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist. β€” Yasmin Mogahed

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love. β€” Marion Woodman

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. β€” Erin Morgenstern

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. β€” Louisa May Alcott

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. β€” Sharon Kay Penman

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. β€” Backseat Goodbye

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. β€” Nora Ephron

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer. β€” Helen Hunt Jackson

More October And Fall Quotes

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air. β€” Alexander Smith

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! β€” Humbert Wolfe

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October. β€” Alexander Smith

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. β€” Thomas Wolfe

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. β€” D. H. Lawrence

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. β€” Backseat Goodbye

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. β€” Dario Fo

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. β€” Lucy Maud Montgomery

When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground. β€” Emily Dickinson

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. β€” Edwin Way Teale

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October. β€” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Autumn arrives in the early morning. β€” Elizabeth Bowen

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. β€” Remy De Gourmont

Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants. β€” Thalassa Cruso

October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. β€” Henry David Thoreau

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. β€” Doug Larson

October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands. β€” Jean Hersey

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. β€” Francis Bacon

Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on. β€” Emily Dickinson

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October. β€” Patricia Highsmith

October's gold is dim β€” the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. β€” David Gray

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. β€” William Cowper

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. β€” Carl Sandburg

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. β€” John Updike

Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream. β€” Ernest Dowson

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold. β€” William C. Bryant

It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. β€” Edward Gibbon

January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December. β€” Christina Rossetti

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow,Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow. β€” John Fletcher

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen. β€” Jean Webster

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep β€” T. S. Eliot

In Conclusion

Why should you read October and fall quotes? They serve as a reminder of the simple yet profound joys that this season brings. Reading these quotes can elevate your mood, inspire creativity, and provide a fresh perspective on life's beauty. They're not just words but life lessons wrapped in the golden hues of fall. They teach us to appreciate the present moment, the beauty in change, and the importance of letting go, much like the leaves falling from the trees. Isn't it wonderful how a simple quote can carry such depth and wisdom? So, immerse yourself in the wisdom of October and fall quotes and let them guide you through this season of transformation.

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