September Quotes to Say One Last Goodbye to Summer

September always feels a little nostalgic. It’s time to Say One Last Goodbye to Summer and get ready to say welcome to autumn. Honestly, I believe that is exactly why September is such a special month – it gives us a chance to hold on to summer a little bit longer, keeping an eye out for all the great things to come.

I think it’s a good time to start fresh and realize that change is inevitable. And we long to hold on to the last rays of sunlight, the memories we wish to cherish, and the thrill of a new season. But before we embark on that journey from summer into autumn, let us bid farewell to summer.

September Quotes

• ” 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

• ” Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.” Mary Berry

• ” The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” Henry Beston

• ” Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? ” Dodie Smith

• ” How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.” Eleanor Clark

• ” Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” J.K. Rowling

• ” 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

• ” Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.” Roger Rosenblatt

• ” September tries its best to have us forget summer.” Bernard Williams

• ” September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.” Olive Wendell Holmes

• ” 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

• ” Happy September! The world shall now transform into pumpkin everything.” Keith Wynn

• ” But the days grow short when you reach September. ” Maxwell Anderson

• ” 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.” Faith Baldwin

• ” It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. ” Carolyn Parkhurst

• ” As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.” Peggy Toney Horton

• ” 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

• ” It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason. ” Ray Bradbury

• ” All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.” Virginia Woolf

• ” Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.” Henry David Thoreau

• ” 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

• ” September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.” Jenny Wingfield

• ” Wine is the divine juice of September.” Voltaire

• ” September is the other January. ” Gretchen Rubin

• ” 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

• ” 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

• ” I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember. ” Dominic Riccitello

• ” Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them! ” Mehmet Murat Ildan

• ” 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 always will remember. ” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

• ” 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

• ” 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

• ” The roses hung their heads and dreamed under the still September clouds, and the water plashed and murmured softly among the pebbles of the shore. ” E.L. Voynich

• ” Sweet September Blessings! I am eternally grateful!!! ” Charmaine J. Forde

• ” September’s Baccalaureate, a combination is of Crickets – Crows – and Retrospects and a dissembling breeze that hints without assuming – an Innuendo sear that makes the heart put up its fun and turn Philosopher.” Emily Dickinson

• ” I love September, especially when we’re in it. ” Willie Stargell

• ” 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

• ” September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.” Alexander Theroux

• ” 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

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