October.
A mix of beautiful, crisp autumn mornings and windy and rainy evenings. The start of the last quarter as we go into the exciting but sometimes also stressful holiday season.
It’s a time of change.
And to help you make it a happy month I’d like to share 100 of the most positive, beautiful and funny short October quotes.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here to embrace all the change and lovely moments of this season and to spread the positive fall vibes on Instagram, your letter board and in your life.
Short Welcome October Quotes and Sayings for a Beautiful Fall
“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.”
– John Sinor
“In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.”
– Elizabeth George Speare
“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.”
– Florence Bone
“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
– Angela Carter
“October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.”
– Keith Donohue
“Then came October, full of merry glee.”
– Edmund Spenser
“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”
– Bonaro W. Overstreet
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…”
– John Nichols
“My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
– Nova Bair
“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“October, baptize me with leaves!”
– Rainbow Rowell
“October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.”
– Hal Borland
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
– W.S. Merwin
“It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.”
– 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
“October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows.”
– Joy Fielding
Short and Inspirational October Quotes for Your Letter Board
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.”
– Unknown
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir
“Autumn whispered to the wind, ‘I fall but always rise again.’”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.”
– George Eliot
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.”
– Unknown
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
“Autumn colors my soul in the loveliest shades.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
– Charlotte Bates
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler
“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived.”
– Dodinsky
“In autumn,change is in the air. Embrace it. Use that energy in your own life.”
– Unknown
“October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures.”
– Sarah Guillory
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler
Funny and Short October Quotes for Good Laughs (and Your Instagram)
“Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.”
– Devendra Banhart
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”
– Linus (form the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)
“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit!”
– Unknown
“O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again, and I am autumnrifically happy!”
– Terri Guillemets
“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn.”
– Lauren Oliver
“Chicago is an October sort of city, even in spring.”
– Nelson Algren
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“Happy Spook-tober!”
– Unknown
“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies, these are the things I love, I can tell no lies.”
– Unknown
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield
“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”
– Unknown
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
Short October Quotes for Motivation at Work or School
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.”
– A.A. Milne
“October is a great time for making a final push to make your dream real before the end of the year.”
– Unknown
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”
– Lauren DeStefano
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Stay humble, work hard, be kind.”
– Conan O’Brien
“Another fall, another turned page.”
– Wallace Stegner
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell
“Work smarter, not harder.”
– Allen F. Morgenstern
“Yesterday’s dreams are today’s realities.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Short Hello October Quotes for an Aesthetic and Happy Month
“October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing winds greeted him.”
– Jaime Allison Parker
“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.”
– Jacqueline Woodson
“October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes.”
– Ken Weber
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”
– Leif Enger
“October is the month for painted leaves.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“I keep falling in love with October, over and over again!”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“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
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
– Humbert Wolfe
“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth.”
– Elizabeth George Speare
“In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp.”
– John Burroughs
“What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.”
– Carole Maso
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps
“The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.”
– William Butler Yeats
“A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.”
– Nitya Prakash
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“The first of October was crisp and golden as a freshly picked apple.”
– Unknown
“Autumn arose and my soul bloomed.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.”
– Winston Graham
“I come alive in the fall time.”
– The Weeknd
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
– Mary Russell Mitford
“You don’t waste October sunshine.”
– Katherine Arden
Want more positive and uplifting inspiration for your autumn? Then check out these inspirational October quotes, the short fall quotes here and also these inspirational fall quotes.