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Hello October Quotes and Sayings for that Welcome Fall Aesthetic

October is truly transition time when it comes to weather, school, holidays, etc., so we have put together a list of all the best hello October quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short October quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Hello October Quotes

“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde

May your month of October be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.

Happy October – I love that I live in a world where there are Octobers

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood

Welcoming the spooky month of October.

Happy to be welcoming October

“I’m an October baby, yes.” – Cardi B

The beauty of autumn lies in every leaf turning into a beautiful flower creating a mesmerizing combination.

Welcome October. I’m loving fall!

“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.” ― Neil Gaiman

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Junea Angelou

“Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without it’s leading role – pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.” – Rachel Hollis

“You don’t waste October sunshine.” ― Katherine Arden

Tea and fuzzy socks season

“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” – John Sinor

Welcoming the month of October

Spooktober

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” – Charmaine J. Forde

Welcome October! Nice to see you!

Welcoming October one day at a time

Hello, October! Now, the days are going to be cooler and the days shorter.

“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” — Laura Jaworski

“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.” ― Jacqueline Woodson

Hello October, I wasn’t expecting you so soon.

“The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants.” – Seth Adam Smith

Goodbye September, and a big hello to October.

“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Orchards are a beautiful place and it’s a wonderful experience to do with your children so they see where apples come from. Nothing beats the sensation of picking the first apple of the season.” – Charles Pratt

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.” – Humbert Wolfe

“October is a hallelujah!” – John Nichols

Happy October – remember watch the leaves change

Goodbye September. It’s a new month with new hope and a new spirit. Hello October! Please, be good to me.

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont

Fall foliage is my favorite color

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus

“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” ― Ray Bradbury

Doin’ October things for the ‘Gram

“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” – Nelson Algren

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets

“Pumpkins in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

Hello, October! Let the colors fall begin.

Enjoy your 1st day of October.

Welcome, October! A bounty of beautiful beginnings and never ending blessings. Hey, you, the reader, may your all dreams come true this month.

“The crickets still sing in October.” ― Kevin Dalton

“Pale amber sunlight falls across. The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze.” – Ernest Dowson

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

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy’s hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. ” – Sherwood Anderson

“October, the extravagant sister.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wishing you the best on your first day of October.

Hello, October and Goodbye September. Here’s to an exciting, joyful, enjoyable, peaceful, and blessed month.

Hello October, I know you are going to be a great month for me.

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.” ― Anna Sewell

“If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.” — Kyle Lake

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year.” – J.K. Rowling

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” – Dodinsky

“In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” – John Burroughs

“But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.” ― Stephen King

“Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I’ll have one spice that’s for sweets, and that’s pumpkin pie spice.” – Sandra Lee

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” ― Keith Donohue

Happy October: time to for fall colors

Welcome to the first day of October

“For I have had too much, of apple-picking: I am overtired of the great harvest I myself desired.” ― Robert Frost

“I come alive in the fall time.” – The Weeknd, ‘Starboy’

“The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

“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

“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

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

Happy October, everyone

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.” ― Carole Maso

“All the months are friends of mine but apple month is the dearest, chanted Pat. It was October at Silver Bush. . .” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery

Keep calm and welcome October.

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.” ― William Bliss

Welcome to the first day of October.

“Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.” –  Amanda Eliasch

“Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.” – John Leonard

Wake me up when it’s October

“October is the treasure of the year and all the months pay bounty to her store.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a fall’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”- John Lubbock

“An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that’s similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.” ― Jeffrey Stepakoff

“I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can’t explain. Something worth more than money.” ― Steven Herrick

“May you fall in love with October and all the beauty it brings, May your life be as colorful as the turning of the leaves, On each blessed autumn day” ― Charmaine J. Forde

When the days start to decrease, autumn starts to grow in everything.

A new month always brings positive vibes with it and infuse new energetic souls in us.

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald

Pumpkin spice and everything nice

Happy October! May the crisp days ahead fill you with joy!

Hello October, please be kind and less happening. I am not in the mood to go through a lot of excitement this month.

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland

“The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.” – W.B.Yeats

“If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.” – Devendra Banhart

The 1st day of October has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to get ready for sweater weather.

“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

Changing leaves, pumpkin lattes and sweater weather. Welcome October.

October…Chapter 10

“This tree must be falling for me, as soon as I sat under it, it dropped its leaves. Oh sweet October!” ― Charmaine J Forde

“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and Autumn was awaked.” — Raquel Franco

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” – Alexander Smith

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The scent of October: Bright sunlit skies, nature’s warm colors, and the smell of seasons are about to change. The hint of new beginnings, knowing something wonderful is around the bend.

Entering into the 10th month of the year means next part of the year is yours. Welcome October with positive vibes only.

Life is better in October

Hello October! My favorite spooky month.

“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.” ― Angela Carter

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth … The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet.” — Elizabeth George Speare

“October has broken my heart before…” ― Nitya Prakash

Happy October and hello fall!

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau

Welcome October: now go do what you do best

Please be good to me, October

“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

Welcome to the start of another great month!

“Write about winter in the fall.” – Annie Dillard

“Cause I’m Peter, Peter the pumpkin eater and the party has just begun.” — Garth Brooks

“My favorite word is pumpkin. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.” — Harrison Salisbury

“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

Good things are going to happen. Welcome, October!

“Another fall, another turned page.” – Wallace Stegner

“Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling.”

“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph

“When I look at a pumpkin muffin, I see the brilliant orange glow of a sugar maple in its full autumnal glory. I see the crisp blue sky of October, so clear and restorative and reassuring. I see hayrides, and I feel Halloween just around the corner, kids dressed up in homemade costumes, bobbing for apples and awaiting trick or treat.” ― Jenny Gardiner

“I keep falling in love with October, Over and over again!” ― Charmaine J. Forde

I’ve always loved October so much, haven’t you? I can see why it’s called the Month of the Angels.” ― Eva Ibbotson

October: sweater weather and pumpkin season.

Are you ready for the spookiest month of them all? Happy October

“When life gives you pumpkins, make pie.” – Elbert Hubbard

“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” – Florence Bone

Happy 1st day of October! Time to enjoy this beautiful weather.

Welcome October!

“Autumn is a poem – while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.” ― Laura Chouette

October shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the earth with mellow warmth.” –  Elizabeth George Speare

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop

“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves

“Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.” – Harland Williams

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

These colors are unbe-leaf-able!

Well hello there October

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”. – Emily Brontë

Happy October!

Get comfortable with fall. Happy October.

“Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.” – Neil Gaiman

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne, The Autumnal

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” ― Thomas Wolfe

“A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.” ― Nitya Prakash

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant

“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” – Rainbow Rowell

“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

Though goodbyes are depressing, but Hellos are always pleasing. So welcome October and say goodbye to September.

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

Some days are cool while others are hot; October is the month we are talking about.

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill–several thrills?” ― L.M. Montgomery

It’s October so I’m off enjoying fall

“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.” – Hal Borland

Hello October, please be a good month that brings smiles and happiness to our lives.

“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant

“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise

Today is the first day of October which means it’s time to celebrate!

The first day of October is here, which means my favorite month is here.

Welcome 1st October and end October by setting goals, saying prayers, and working hard.

“October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” – Sarah Guillory

Hello, October!

It’s the nature of the world. One thing remains, and one gone. Goodbye September and Hello October.

It’s October – Time to welcome fall

“It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” ― Charmaine J Forde

Stressed, blessed, pumpkin obsessed

Hello October! I’m ready for Halloween.

Hello, October! Be a month of peace and love.

Make your August good, September better, and the month of October best.

“There are three things that I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” —  Charlie Brown

“Only lovers see the fall, a signal end to endings.” – Maya Angelou

“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.” – Ray Bradbury

Happy people are the best, and October is the month of the happiest people.

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.” – Walt Whitman

So that is it for our list of October Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Short October Captions, Funny Halloween Letter Board Quotes and Short Pumpkin Captions.

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About the Author

Laynni Deir

I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.

The goal of Purely Lists is to provide a comprehensive and diverse set of lists to cover every situation from holidays and celebrations to uplifting quotes and general motivation. Whether you are looking for something deep and profound, funny and foolish or positive and encouraging, we strive to offer easy, fast and accessible options.