October has arrived, and with that comes the fall season. And we slowly start changing our wardrobe and prefer fall flavors as the trees turn to warmer colors and the weather to cooler temperatures.

October is about crisp days, changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and Halloween. There are so many fun things about October and much to think about. Soon the shelves will be filled with candy, everything will be pumpkin and cinnamon flavored, and the sidewalks will be covered with leaves.

For many, October is the best month of the year. Between the gorgeous foliage, the fun fall activities, and the opportunity to sip mulled cider every weekend, there’s something in the month for just about everyone.

Here, you’ll find October quotes that sum up all the season’s sentiments. With these inspiring October quotes, it’s clear that these authors and poets have the same appreciation for October that we do. Muse about the gorgeous fall color outside with an October quote, or share a lighthearted poem with your family to celebrate October’s arrival. Whether you’re looking for a festive fall Instagram caption or need some autumn inspiration, these October quotes are just the right fit.

Carve a pumpkin, pick an apple, bake a spice cake, admire the foliage, and say hello to October!

Holidays, special occasions of October

• October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and National Pizza Month
• October 1: International Coffee Day, World Vegetarian Day
• October 3: National Boyfriends Day
• October 5: Do Something Nice Day (Engage in acts of kindness!)
• First Friday: World Smile Day
• October 10: Canadian Thanksgiving Day
• Second Monday: Columbus Day
• Third Saturday: Sweetest Day
• October 27: Navy Day
• October 31: Halloween

220 October Quotes to Fall In Love With This Autumn

Top 10 October Quotes

“The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

“The scent of October: Bright sunlit skies, nature’s warm colors, and the smell of seasons are about to change. The hint of new beginnings, knowing something wonderful is around the bend.”

“The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants.” – Seth Adam Smith

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy’s hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. ” – Sherwood Anderson

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Junea Angelou

“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.” – Joseph Rotblat

“But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.” – Stephen King

“Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.” – John Leonard

“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

“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.” – Mehmet Murat ildan

What Is October?

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“October: that’s when they pay off for playing ball.” – Reggie Jackson

“October: sweater weather and pumpkin season.”

“October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins… Merry October!” – Rainbow Rowell

“October, the extravagant sister.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.” – Angela Carter

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” – Rainbow Rowell

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!…Merry October!” – Rainbow Rowell

“October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.” – Joy Fielding

“October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.” – Elizabeth Enright

“October shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” – Keith Donohue

“October made the leaves on Main Street fit for a crown. They dripped from the trees in jewel-toned shades: yellow and orange and fiery red. The cool wind sent a confetti-cluster of leaves down around us.” – Natalie Lloyd

“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.” – Neil Gaiman

“October is the treasure of the year and all the months pay bounty to her store.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar

“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.” – Hal Borland

“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” – John Sinor

“October is a symphony of permanence and change.” – Bonaro W. Overstreet

“October is a hallelujah!” – John Nichols

“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool, and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalog looks wonderful. The names of the subjects all seem to lay open the way to a new world. Your arms are full of new, clean notebooks, waiting to be filled. You pass the doors of the library, and the smell of thousands of well-kept books makes your head swim with a clean and subtle pleasure.” – Thomas Merton

“October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again.” – Hal Borlan

“October has broken my heart before…” – Nitya Prakash

“October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” – Sarah Guillory

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” – J. K. Rowling

“October baseball is what it’s all about.” – James A. Winnefeld

Short October Quotes

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“Write about winter in the fall.” – Annie Dillard

“Welcome to the start of another great month!”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” – Tim Burton

“Enjoy your 1st day of October.”

“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets

“Another fall, another turned page.” – Wallace Stegner

“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you’ve got it, haunt it.” – Rose Pressey

“Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling.”

“My favorite color is October.” – Unknown

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood

“Only lovers see the fall, a signal end to endings.” – Maya Angelou

“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“I’m an October baby, yes.” – Cardi B

“I come alive in the fall time.” – The Weeknd

Hello October Quotes

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“Hello, October! Now, the days are going to be cooler and the days shorter.”

“Hello, October! Let the colors fall begin.”

“Hello, October! Be a month of peace and love.”

“Hello, October and Goodbye September. Here’s to an exciting, joyful, enjoyable, peaceful, and blessed month.”

“Hello October, please be kind and less happening. I am not in the mood to go through a lot of excitement this month.”

“Hello October, please be a good month that brings smiles and happiness to our lives.”

“Hello October, I’ve missed you” – Unknown

“Hello October, I know you are going to be a great month for me.”

“Hello October! My favorite spooky month.”

“Hello October! I’m ready for Halloween.”

“It’s the nature of the world. One thing remains, and one gone. Goodbye September and Hello October.”

“Goodbye September. It’s a new month with new hope and a new spirit. Hello October! Please, be good to me.”

“Goodbye September, and a big hello to October.”

Happy October Quotes

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“Happy people are the best, and October is the month of the happiest people.”

“Happy 1st day of October! Time to enjoy this beautiful weather.”

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

“The crickets still sing in October. And Lilly, she’s trying to bloom. Though she’s resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.” – Kevin Dalton

“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” – Florence Bone

“The beauty of autumn lies in every leaf turning into a beautiful flower creating a mesmerizing combination.”

“The 1st day of October has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to get ready for sweater weather.”

“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” – Rusty Fischer

“Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.” – Neil Gaiman

“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.” – Gladys Taber

“Some days are cool while others are hot; October is the month we are talking about.”

“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, tonight is Halloween!” – Dexter Kozen

“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“My lovely November. Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?” – A Waltz for Zizi

“My favorite word is pumpkin. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.” – Harrison Salisbury

“My beloved October has returned—with its brilliant colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year.” – Peggy Toney Horton

“An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that’s similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.” – Jeffrey Stepakoff

“Although I was born in April, I’m quite certain I was not fully awake until October.” – Peggy Toney Horton

“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.” – Thomas Wolfe

“All the months are friends of mine but apple month is the dearest, chanted Pat. It was October at Silver Bush. . .” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise

“What could be more exciting than an October day? It’s your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.” – Peggy Toney Horton

Funny October Quotes

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“When I look at a pumpkin muffin, I see the brilliant orange glow of a sugar maple in its full autumnal glory. I see the crisp blue sky of October, so clear and restorative and reassuring. I see hayrides, and I feel Halloween just around the corner, kids dressed up in homemade costumes, bobbing for apples and awaiting trick or treat.” – Jenny Gardiner

“What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.” – Carole Maso

“What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?” – Doris Lessing

“We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.” – Mark Perlberg

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.” – Cynthia Rylant

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth…The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her…In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.” – Elizabeth George Speare

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the earth with mellow warmth.” – Elizabeth George Speare

“Yet, I can face the winter with calm. I suppose I had forgotten what it was really like. I had been thinking of the winter as a horrid wet, dreary time fit only for professional football. Now I can see other things—crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…” – A.A. Milne

“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.” – Sylvia Plath

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” – Dodie Smith

“Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” – Avijeet Das

“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” – Winston Graham

“If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.” – Devendra Banhart

“I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.” – Jerome K. Jerome

“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” – Yoko Ono

“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… ” – Nicholas Gordon

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. ” – Emily Brontë

“Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.” – Susan Lendroth

“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” – Leif Enge

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets

“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph

“When the days start to decrease, autumn starts to grow in everything.”

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” – Rémy de Gourmont

“When life gives you pumpkins, make pie.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.” – Peggy Toney Hortons

“After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.” – Naomi Wolf

“A new month always brings positive vibes with it and infuse new energetic souls in us.”

“This is October for me. Withdrawing into my own world, blocking out everything except the beauty of the season, my reflections, and my relationship with God, I find that this is enough to sustain me through the long cold winter, and beyond…” – Peggy Toney Horton

“This is going to be a November to remember” – Charmaine J. Forde

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.” – William Bliss

October Blessings Quotes

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“Let this new month bring great miracles, new visions and greater blessings for you and your beloved ones.” – Rajesh Goyal

“May your month of October be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.”

“In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling wood stoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings – for the food on their tables and the babies in their arms.” – Cynthia Rylant

“You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” – Katherine Arden

“As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the trees in our orchard, but it is as though all things pomological ripen in me, too.” – Monty Don

“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.” – Ray Bradbury

“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and Autumn was awaked.” – Raquel Franco

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne

“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” – April Mae Monterrosa

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.” – Anna Sewell

“Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without it’s leading role – pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.” – Rachel Hollis

“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” – Brackett

“It’s a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May.” – Denis Norden

“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.” – Melody Lee

“The object of a new month is not that we should have a new month…we should have a new soul.” – G. K. Chesterton

“On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.” – Nicholas Gordon

“November, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.” – Ambrose Bierce

“In October I confessed my love for her, and she allowed me to kiss her.” – Ivan Bunin

“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” – Ava Dellaria

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland

“May you fall in love with October and all the beauty it brings, May your life be as colorful as the turning of the leaves, On each blessed autumn day” – Charmaine J. Forde

“Make your August good, September better, and the month of October best.”

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg

“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” – Henry David Thoreau

“In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.” – Elizabeth George Speare

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe

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

“O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.” – D. H. Lawrence

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her When from every hill of flame She calls and calls each vagabond by name.” – William Bliss

“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.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In October a maple-tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” – John Burroughs

“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.” – Eleanor Estes

“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran

“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” – Laura Jaworski

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill–several thrills?” – L.M. Montgomery

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I wish that every day was Saturday, and every month was October.” – Charmaine J. Forde

“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

“Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.” – Amanda Eliasch

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

“I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can’t explain. Something worth more than money.” – Steven Herrick

Inspirational October Quotes

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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a fall’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock

“Pumpkins in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

“Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.” – Harland Williams

“Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer’s loss Seems little, dear! on days like these.” – Ernest Dowson

“There are three things that I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” – Charlie Brown

“The witches fly, Across the sky,The owls go, ‘Who? Who? Who?’ The black cats yowl, And green ghosts howl, ‘Scary Halloween to you!’” – Nina Willis Walter

“The wind grew cold. The leaves turned red. The bark turned red. The soil turned red. The stars turned red. Something was wrong with October.” – T.R. Darling

“The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans.” – W.B. Yeats

“The stock market crash in October 1929 didn’t destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.” – Christina Romer

“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween. October Dreams: A celebration of Halloween.” – Paula Curan

“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.” – Malcolm Lowry

“The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…” – A.A. Milne

“I keep falling in love with October, Over and over again!” – Charmaine J. Forde

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

“Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day!” – Rusty Fischer

“Gardeners are never wicked, are they?’ said Ruth. ‘Obstinate and grumpy and wanting to be alone, but not wicked. Oh, look at that creeper! I’ve always loved October so much, haven’t you? I can see why it’s called the Month of the Angels.” – Eva Ibbotson

“For I have had too much, of apple-picking: I am overtired of the great harvest I myself desired.” – Robert Frost

“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” – Evan Peters

“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.” – Dodinsky

“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.” – Alexander L. Fraser

“Falling in love with October. Leaves descending to the ground, orange, magenta, green & brown. The cool crisp breezes in the air, Autumn season must be here.” – Charmaine J Forde

“The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.” – Ray Bradbury

“I long for the days of pumpkins and ghosts; when the dead use homes and people as hosts.” – E. Reyes

First Day Of October Quotes

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“Wishing you the best on your first day of October.”

“Welcome to the first day of October.”

“Today is the first day of October which means it’s time to celebrate!”

“The first day of October is here, which means my favorite month is here.”

“I wish you a beautiful new month from the first day of this month to the last day.” – J. K. Rowling

“It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” – Charmaine J Forde

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

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.” – Nadine Locke

“Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I’ll have one spice that’s for sweets, and that’s pumpkin pie spice.” – Sandra Lee

“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.” – Alexander Smith

“In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” – John Burroughs

“If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.” – Kyle Lake

“Orchards are a beautiful place and it’s a wonderful experience to do with your children so they see where apples come from. Nothing beats the sensation of picking the first apple of the season.” – Charles Pratt

“Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.” – Lorin Morgan-Richards

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” – Ray Bradbury

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

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde

“Chicago is an October sort of city, even in spring.” – Nelson Algren

“Cheers to a new month and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Cause I’m Peter, Peter the pumpkin eater and the party has just begun.” – Garth Brooks

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” – Carol Bishop Hipps

“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” – Peggy Toney Horton

“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” – Henry Rollins

“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” – W. S. Merwin

“I don’t count on the boy who waits till October, when it’s cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.” – Darrell Royal

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.” – Edwin Way Teale

“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things.” – Jacqueline Woodson

“A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.” – Nitya Prakash

“Autumn is a poem – while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.” – Laura Chouette

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first October was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J.K. Rowling

“In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho.” – Lydia Millet

“The first flash of color always excites me as much as the first frail, courageous bloom of spring. This is, in a sense, my season–sometimes warm and, when the wind blows an alert, sometimes cold. But there is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big. The September storms–the hurricane warnings far away, the sudden gales, the downpour of rain that we have so badly needed here for so long–are exhilarating, and there’s a promise that what September starts, October will carry on, catching the torch flung into her hand.” – Faith Baldwin

“You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.” – Karel Capek

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