November 2017 Quotes: 11 Sayings About Fall To Celebrate The Autumn Month

The arrival of November on Wednesday brings with it colder and brisk days, as red, orange and brown leaves fall off the trees. Possibly the best part about the arrival of the autumn month is the influx of holidays, as the month signifies the beginning of the holiday season.

Here are some quotes on fall to get into the November spirit from BrainyQuote and Goodreads.

• “October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• “It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.” — Maggie Stiefvater, American author.
• “The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” — American Henry Beston, writer and naturalist.
• “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” —Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost.
• “There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. American civil rights activist.
• “So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.” — John Clare, British poet.
• “But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods… for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.” — L.M. Motgomery, Canadian author.
• “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light.” — Ernest Hemingway , American author.
• “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 , American author.
• “I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.”— Henry Rollins, American musician.
• “November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.” — F. Sionil Jose, Filipino writer.