25 Beautiful Quotes That Always Get Us Excited for October
October just might be one of the most special months of the year! After the first day of fall, there's so much to enjoy: pumpkin patches, corn mazes, and fall foliage. We would do just about anything to drink a nice glass of apple cider while bundled up in layers on a crisp day. Feeling inspired? Read through some of the best quotes about October.
Here, you'll find October quotes that truly sum up all the sentiments of the season. Whether you're looking for a fall Instagram caption or some festive pumpkin quotes ahead of Halloween, you'll find it on our list. "Bittersweet October," reads one option from Carol Bishop Hipps. "The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter." There are plenty of kid-friendly October quotes here as well, like this memorable excerpt from Anne of Green Gables: "I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
As lovely as generic fall quotes can be, they're not quite specific enough to speak to our love for the most colorful month of them all. Peggy Toney Horton said it best: "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."
Katherine Arden, 'Small Spaces'
"You don't waste October sunshine."
John Burroughs
"In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp."
L. M. Montgomery
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
John Nichols
"October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round..."
Joy Fielding
"October was always the least dependable of months... full of ghosts and shadows."
Carol Bishop Hipps
"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."
Eudora Welty, 'The Wide Net and Other Stories'
"'Only today,' he said, 'Today, in October sun, it's all gold—sky and tree and water.'"
W.S. Merwin
"I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring."
Peggy Toney Horton
"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."
John Sinor
"October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book."
Charmaine J. Forde
"I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October."
Nova S. Bair
"October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter."
Henry Ward Beecher
"October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month."
Florence Bone
"The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Great Gatsby'
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
William Butler Yeats
"The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky."
Charmaine J. Forde
"It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors."
Sarah Guillory, 'Reclaimed'
"October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures."
Humbert Wolfe
"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
Bonaro W. Overstreet
"October is a symphony of permanence and change."
Alexander Smith
"In the entire circle of the year, there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October."
Henry David Thoreau
"October is the month of painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world."
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"October is the treasure of the year."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"October turned my maple's leaves to gold."
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