As the leaves turn from vibrant greens to rich shades of amber and crimson, and the air grows crisp with the arrival of autumn, there’s a palpable sense of change in the atmosphere. Fall, with its magical transformation of nature, has long been celebrated for its beauty, symbolism, and the emotions it evokes. From the cozy warmth of pumpkin spice lattes to the enchanting sight of foliage ablaze with color, this season captivates the senses and stirs the soul.
In literature, art, and everyday conversations, fall is often portrayed as a time of transition, reflection, and renewal. It’s a season that invites introspection, prompting us to contemplate the passage of time and the cyclical nature of life. Whether it’s the melancholic nostalgia for summer’s end or the anticipation of holidays to come, fall holds a special place in the hearts of many. Join us on a journey through the eloquent words and sentiments inspired by this enchanting season, as we explore a collection of fall quotes that capture its essence and spirit.
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again. Richard Branson
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. Oprah Winfrey
I’ve never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it. Trevor Noah
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Unknown
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. Jules Verne
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. Christine Todd Whitman
I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. Amy Winehouse
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. Maya Angelou
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. Ben Stein
One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list. Michelle Obama
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. Noah Feldman
You’ve got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish. Darrell Royal
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie
I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may. Leonard Nimoy
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke
United we stand, divided we fall. Aesop
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. Annie Leibovitz
The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall. Orville Wright
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self. Max Stirner
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. Roy Orbison
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier
In 1985, I was the host of a talk show, ‘Hot Properties on Lifetime.’ Hulk Hogan was on the show. He put me in a headlock and rendered me unconscious and let me fall to the ground. I split my head open and got nine stitches – and this was on live TV. Richard Belzer
Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short! Bethany Hamilton
The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test. Jocko Willink
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? Neil deGrasse Tyson
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Sun Tzu
You can’t choose who you fall in love with, you know? Kate Winslet
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. Lucille Ball
An artist should not fall in love with another artist. Marina Abramovic
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. Jesse Jackson
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives. Gary Zukav
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. Vince Lombardi
When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. Madeleine M. Kunin
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. Brad Henry
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. Brene Brown
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. Yasser Arafat
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Louisiana, you can drive when you’re 15 – you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver’s ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired. The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver’s seat. I didn’t fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It’s Louisiana. Theo Von
The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. Bob Marley
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. Caroline Knapp
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up. Lilly Singh
I’m lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you. JoJo
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. Joseph Story
You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better. Lil Durk
We fall in love more deeply when we’re unhappy. Orhan Pamuk
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Soren Kierkegaard
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Arthur Helps
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. Leon Trotsky
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury
Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong. Gail Devers
My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible. Alex Honnold
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
It’s a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up. Volodymyr Zelensky
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time. Joel Edgerton
People fall forward to success. Mary Kay Ash
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census,’ and people fall asleep. Aaron Sorkin
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. Andrew Wyeth
Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand. Hayley Williams
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Sophocles
Life is a horizontal fall. Jean Cocteau
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. Oliver Goldsmith
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle. Mahatma Gandhi
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. Alice Walker
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. William Golding
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends. Alexander the Great
All pieces of the puzzle need to fall in the right place to be a champion team. Shreyas Iyer
If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I’m a firm believer that where there’s a will, there’s a way. Eric Davis
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. Victor Kiam
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. Peter Marshall
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Walter Raleigh
If it’s me and yer granny on bongos, it’s the Fall. Mark E. Smith
I give all the glory to God. It’s kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me. Gabby Douglas
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. Benito Mussolini
Everything you want to accomplish is already within yourself so when you start to roll in self-doubt and think negative thoughts then you’ll fall off. So keep visualising and keep knowing what you’re destined for, it’ll come to you. NLE Choppa
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestley
It’s not whether you fall or make a mistake, it’s what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It’s not how many times you fall, it’s how many times you stand up. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I have learned it’s not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters. Linda McMahon
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. Karl A. Menninger
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Khalil Gibran
Most organizations don’t fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don’t end because of one grand argument. Most lives don’t fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up – and break down. Robin S. Sharma
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling
Every once in a while, I get mad. ‘The Lorax’ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‘The Lorax,’ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might. Dr. Seuss
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates