You know that feeling when summer starts to wind down and you can sense fall creeping in? It’s like the air gets a bit crisper, the leaves start changing colors, and everything just feels different. The days starts to get shorter and the nights become cooler. It’s like nature’s way of gently nudging us to a new season.
September is here!
As September rolls around, it brings with it a mix of changes in the weather and a sense of new beginning. It’s so much fun to watch the warm colors of fall taking over.
Here is a collection of 35 best September quotes that capture the essence of the transition month.
1. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air…Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” -Wallace Stegner
2. “By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” – Helen Hunt Jackson
3. “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
4. “September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.” -Rowland E. Robinson
5. “September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and color. It glows like old amber.” -Patience Strong
6. “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
7. “How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.” -Eleanor Clark
8. “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
9. “We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” – Henry Rollins
10. “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
11. “September was a 30-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. It didn’t feel like fresh air either, it made me suffocate. It was like the days would be dragging some kind of sickness, one that we knew wouldn’t last, but made us uncomfortable anyway. The atmosphere felt dusty and stifling.” -Lea Malot
12. “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
13. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” -J.K. Rowling
14. “The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.” -Lauren Oliver
15. “And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn awakened.” -Raquel Franco
16. “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
17. “It must be September, July sun has disappeared.” -Charmaine J. Forde
18. “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
19. “Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.” -Roger Rosenblatt
20. “Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.” -Henry David Thoreau
21. “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. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.” -Tom Robbins
22. “Tonight I miss you like the sky misses his moon; a delicate epiphany growing on grass. I serenade the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. September sky never looked more charming; or the sublime petals of the rose looked so graceful.” -Avijeet Das
23. “The September storms—the hurricane warnings far away, the sudden gales, the downpour of rain that we have so badly needed here for so long—are exhilarating, and there’s a promise that what September starts, October will carry on, catching the torch flung into her hand.” –Faith Baldwin
24. “…there is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big. The September storms…are exhilarating…” -Faith Baldwin
25. “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
26. “September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.” -Olive Wendell Holmes
27. “I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.” -Dominic Riccitello
28. “September tries its best to have us forget summer.” -Bernard Williams
29. “All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.” -Virginia Woolf
30. “It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air.” -Carolyn Parkhurst
31. “September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.” -Jenny Wingfield
32. “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.” -Peggy Toney Horton
33. “September is the other January.” – Gretchen Rubin
34. “Wine is the divine juice of September.” – Voltaire
35. “But the days grow short when you reach September.” – Maxwell Anderson
I hope you enjoyed this collection of best September quotes and sayings. Also, share this collection of quotes with your loved ones and spread the joy.