Happy Herbst! Happy Autumn! Happy Fall!

Der Herbst ist immer unsre beste Zeit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Der Winter ist die Sünd',
Die Buße Frühlingszeit,
Der Sommer Gnadenstand,
Der Herbst Vollkommenheit.
Angelus Silesius

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery

Oktoberhimmel voller Sterne
hat warme Öfen gerne.

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. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Herbst
Die Blätter fallen, fallen wie von weit,
als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten;
sie fallen mit verneinender Gebärde.
Und in den Nächten fällt die schwere Erde
aus allen Sternen in die Einsamkeit.
Wir alle fallen. Diese Hand da fällt.
Und sieh dir andre an: es ist in allen.
Und doch ist Einer, welcher dieses Fallen
unendlich sanft in seinen Händen hält.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Der Herbst ist der Frühling des Winters.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Wenn der Baum zu welken anfängt, tragen nicht alle seine Blätter die Farbe des Morgenrots?
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
Yoko Ono

Der Herbst ist die Zeit, da die Tage kürzer und die Bremswege länger werden.
Markus M. Ronner

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

Birnen muss man im Herbst schütteln.
Ovid

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Wie ein Weg im Herbst: Kaum ist er rein gekehrt,bedeckt er sich wieder mit den trockenen Blättern.
Franz Kafka

Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant

Es deutet die fallende Blüte dem Gärtner,dass die liebliche Frucht schwellend im Herbste gedeiht.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Truman Capote

Man muss an alle Jahreszeiten denken.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But then 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

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
Nora Ephron

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

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.
Leo Tolstoy