As September arrives, the landscape is already awash with the vibrant hues of autumn leaves.
With the onset of fall, we leave behind the leisurely pace of summer and return to our regular schedules at work and school, as daylight hours gradually decrease.
This transition can bring both anticipation and challenges. To ease this shift, today’s post offers a collection of 83 witty, uplifting, and humorous September quotes.
These quotes aim to bring a smile, alleviate stress, and provide material for your letter board or Instagram posts.
May they mark the beginning of a joyful and fulfilling fall season for you.
Funny September Quotes for a Joyful Start to Autumn
“Happy September! The world shall now transform into pumpkin everything.”
– Keith Wynn
“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.”
– Roger Rosenblatt
“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.”
– Groucho Marx
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air – moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh – felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s face.”
– Tom Robbins
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.”
– Stephen King
“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.”
– Dominic Riccitello
“September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.”
– Jenny Wingfield
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bernard Williams
“Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.”
– Jill Dando
“Wine is the divine juice of September.”
– Voltaire
“It must be September, July sun has disappeared.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: the kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.”
– Brené Brown
“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun.”
– Steve Sabol
“Baking your first fall batch of cookies but you put too much cinnamon in it because you’re too excited it’s fall.”
– Taylor Swift
“Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colors autumn is coming to visit them!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“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
“I guess I’m just feeling all September-ish… All the trees change color, the days get very clear – with little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.”
– George Selden
“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.”
– Mary Berry
“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
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September.”
– Helen Bevington
“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
Short and Humorous September Quotes
“September is nature’s way of saying, ‘Party’s over, now it’s time to find your favorite sweater.’”
– Sandra Shea
“Let’s all be nice to September.”
– Nitya Prakash
“How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.”
– Eleanor Clark
“I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.”
– Gene Simmons
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“September is the other January.”
– Gretchen Rubin
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love September, especially when we’re in it.”
– Willie Stargell
“But the days grow short when you reach September.”
– Maxwell Anderson
“Let’s strive to be better in September!”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“Autumn’s the mellow time.”
– William Allingham
“I come alive in the fall time.”
– The Weeknd
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air.”
– Carolyn Parkhurst
“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“September is the start of the season where I once again try to convince myself I should be wearing scarves.”
– Sarah Kelly
Amusing September Quotes That Will Bring a Smile
“September is the Monday of autumn – nobody asked for it, we were kinda dreading it, but here we are.”
– Sarah Kelly
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“Fall: when the trees turn into exhibitionists and show off their colors.”
– Anna Madse
“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
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Autumn is a poem — while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.”
– Laura Chouette
“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”
– Siobhan Vivian
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens
“Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like spring. I feel like a warm red autumn.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.”
– Robbie Coltrane
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“My September’s to-do list: buy pumpkins early this year, pretend to like hiking and drink everything pumpkin-spiced while this season lasts.”
– Sarah Kelly
“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
– Hal Borland
“Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.”
– Mary Webb
“Nothing says September like arguing with your partner if it’s too early to turn on the heat (and you won’t agree for at least a few weeks).”
– Sandra Shea
Inspirational September Quotes for Your Letter Board
“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.”
– Sharyn McCrumb
“Nostalgia – that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will remember.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“And suddenly, you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
– Meister Eckhart
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz
“When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
– V V Brown
“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
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson
“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 come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation.”
– Sara Baume
“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
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
– Alexander Theroux
“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”
– Ruth Ahmed
“It was a lovely afternoon – such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“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
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland
“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
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont
“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
“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer
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