47 Best September Quotes to Celebrate the Season of Change
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.”
The changing of seasons can be bittersweet, especially when it's summer you're saying goodbye to. Instead of thinking about how much you'll miss all those pool parties and summer barbecues, think about all there is to look forward to come fall! The crisp air brings cozy sweaters, pumpkin-flavored treats, and the breathtaking transformation of leaves into vibrant hues. September is a meaningful month, and this collection of the best quotes about the transitional time is the perfect way to celebrate it!
These September quotes are a mix of happy quotes and inspirational quotes. (You can never go wrong with a little pick-me-up!) There are also some included here that could work as cute fall Instagram captions and others that are perfect for an end of summer Instagram caption. Then, there are some that could work as both! Take this quote by Helen Hunt Jackson, for example: “By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.” See? You really get the best of both worlds!
Embrace the fall season with these cozy autumn ideas:
Peggy Toney Horton
“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.”
Catherynne M. Valente
“September smiled at her wonderful friends in all their colors and bright eyes and gentle ways.”
Meeta Ahluwalia
“September
the golden threshold
between summer and winter”
John Burrows
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
V V Brown
“When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
William Wordsworth
“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”
Emily Brontë
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."
George Arnold
“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring
The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter.”
Hal Borland
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
Sharyn McCrumb
“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 as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.”
Emily Dickinson
“September’s Baccalaureate
A combination is
Of Crickets — Crows — and Retrospects
And a dissembling Breeze."
Alexander Theroux
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
Morgan Harper Nichols
“Let August be August. Let September be September. Let yourself just be even in the uncertainty.”
Oscar Wilde
“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
Sara Baume
"The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change the onset of September; yet still I feel the old trepidation."
Ann Rinaldi
“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived.”
Lee Maynard
“I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
Gretchen Rubin
"September is the other January."
Amit Ray
"Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity."
Charmaine J. Forde
“It must be September, July sun has disappeared”
Macie Reynolds is the assistant editor of E-Commerce and SEO for The Pioneer Woman.
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