A collection of reflections on change, letting go, and the quiet beauty of fall.
- “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald - “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
— Unknown - “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
— L.M. Montgomery - “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche - “The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.”
— Unknown - “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.”
— George Eliot - “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
— Oscar Wilde (attributed) - “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
— Jim Bishop - “Fall is proof that change is beautiful.”
— Unknown - “There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley - “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
— Jane Hirshfield - “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
— William Cullen Bryant - “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.”
— Henry Ward Beecher - “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
— John Donne - “In the leaves, we learn that letting go can be graceful.”
— Unknown - “Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
— Elizabeth Lawrence - “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 is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
— Albert Camus - “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”
— John Muir - “There’s something about autumn that makes the soul quieter, softer, slower.”
— Unknown
