45 September Quotes To Kickstart Your Fall

September Quotes

Welcome Fall With Powerful September Quotes

Welcome September and the annual autumnal beginning with these powerful September quotes.

These inspirational quotes for the month of September, conjure up memories of what’s now an old summer and the lovely things that fall can offer.

The onset of September represents a new month and the start of the fall season, with crisp air on cool Autumn mornings.

Whether it’s the middle of September or the very first day, these September quotes will help you wave goodbye to sunny weather and welcome the September breeze for a happy September.

10 September Quotes To Welcome A New Month

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

–  JK Rowling, Harry Potter

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins.”

– Shon Hyneman

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”

– Henry Beston

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

– Elizabeth Lawrence

“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures.”

– Lea Malot

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”

– Shira Tamir

“I love September, especially when we’re in it.”

-Willie Stargell

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”

– Henry Rollins

“It strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September’s end and fell like an early leaf.”

– William H. Gass

8 September Quotes For A Beautiful Month

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

– Samuel Butler

“September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.”

– Robert Lowell

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

– John Donne

“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”

– Rowland E. Robinson

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

– Joe L. Wheeler

"There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves."

“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

“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

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

– George Eliot

9 September Quotes For Inspiration

“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”

– Virginia Woolf

“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.”

– Olive Wendell Holmes

“Let’s strive to be better in September!”

–  Charmaine J. Forde

“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head.”

– Robert Finch

Wine is the divine juice of September.”

– Voltaire

“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.”

– Ali Smith

“For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.”

– George Washington Cable

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous back as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays a while like an old friend that you have missed.”

– Stephen King 

9 Poetic September Quotes And Sayings

“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

“You were my September song

Summer lasted too long”

– JP Cooper

“By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer’s best of weather

And autumn’s best of cheer.”

–  Helen Hunt Jackson

“September’s Baccalaureate 

A combination is

Of Crickets – Crows – and Retrospects 

And a dissembling Breeze 

That hints without assuming – 

An Innuendo sear 

That makes the Heart put up its Fun 

And turn Philosopher.”

–  Emily Dickinson

“By “September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the Autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace..”

– Louis Macneice

“By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer’s best of weather

And autumn’s best of cheer.”

– Helen Hunt Jackson

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

– John Donne

“The leaves of brown came tumbling down

Remember, in September, in the rain

The sun went out just like a dying amber.”

– Harry Warren

 

“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring

  The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter,

The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring

  And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.”

– George Arnold

9 Thought Provoking September Quotes

“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”

–  Rowland E. Robinson

“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

“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air.”

– Wallace Stegner

“For it’s a long, long while from May to December

But the days grow short when you reach September.”

– Maxwell Anderson

“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end.”

– Sharyn McCrumb

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of Autumn leaves.”

– Joe. L. Wheeler

“Happily we bask in this warm September sun,

Which illuminates all creatures…”

–  Henry David Thoreau

“As if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.”

– Sharyn McCrumb

“We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.”

– Jeb Bush