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The summer days are winding down and autumn is fast approaching. Soon it will be time for sweaters, falling leaves and comfy socks.
If you’re an avid reader, you probably have a book quote for every occasion. Here are some great quotes for the end of summer and coming autumn that you can pair with some warm autumn images for some of your social media postings and advertising.
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
-George R.R. Martin
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
-Anne Bradstreet
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“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
-William Shakespeare
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J.K. Rowling
“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. “
– George R.R. Martin
“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. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
– Stephen King
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. 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
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
-Henry Beston
