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November is here.
Often a dark, windy and rainy month (at least here in Sweden). Not everyone’s favorite.
To help you make the most of this month, I’d like to share 50 uplifting quotes from November.
Beautiful ones to help you appreciate this month more, motivational ones to help you keep pursuing your goals and dreams – great for your letter board or vision board – and funny ones that will make you laugh and reduce your stress.
I hope you will find something useful here.
Beautiful and deep November quotes
“The faintest yellow light of November is more warming and exciting than any wine.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In November the trees are all standing with sticks and bones. How beautiful they are without leaves, spreading their arms like dancers.
–Cynthia Rylant
“Some days in November carry with them the whole memory of summer, as a fire opal carries the color of the rising of the moon.”
–Gladys Taber
“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted into each other’s lives.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“To gaze through a high window at the golden November sunset and feel that when day should become night, this is a beautiful way.”
– E. E. Cummings
“The November days are so dull and dark. The lazy mist high in the evening curled up, and now the morning hides all in the smoke and mist; the place we occupy seems to cover the entire world.”
– John Clare
“It was the best November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite icy, not ice cold.”
– Rainbow Rowell
“Don’t be afraid of the November challenge. We have books and friends, and fireplaces that can never get cold. These make up for it.”
–Alexander L. Fraser
“The leaves are falling, the wind is blowing and the farmland is slowly changing from summer cotton to winter wool.”
– Henry Beston
“I hope I can be the autumn leaf that looked up at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, it gracefully knew that life was a gift.
– Dodinski
“In November the smell of food is different. It’s an orange scent. A pumpkin and pumpkin scent. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill a house in the morning.”
–Cynthia Rylant
‘But there is always a period in November after the leaves have fallen, when they thought it almost indecent to intrude into the forest… for their earthly glory was gone, and their heavenly glory of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them .’
– L.M. Montgomery
“The leaves age beautifully. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stems buzz, the loose husks wave in half-playing whirls towards the sky, and the wind rushes on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs wave, but the wind cannot be stopped.
–Aldo Leopold
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
–Stanley Horowitz
November quotes for motivation, inspiration and gratitude
“November is the month that reminds us to be grateful. For the big things, for the little things and for making the spring that will come in due time so much sweeter.”
– Rip Miller
“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November to give thanks with family and friends. Make every day a Thanksgiving Day!”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“Only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring can harvest in the fall.”
– BC Forbes
“The month of November makes me feel like life is passing by faster. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
– Henry Rollins
“Embrace the sharp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a new start while the wind howls outside.”
– Elise Green
“Be grateful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni
“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a spirit of change in the air.”
– Anna Madsen
“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is a bit of pain, a bit of beauty. And so new leaves grow.”
– Amit Ray
“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there is opportunity for progress, while others rest or become unmotivated. So keep going.”
–George Saunders
“There is a serenity in a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
– Ralph H. Blum
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers man the most and demands the least.”
– Hal Borland
“Enjoy the little things because one day you might look back and realize they were the big things.”
–Robert Brault
“Life starts all over again when it gets chilly in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I can’t bear to waste something as precious as the autumn sun by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniale Hawthorne
Funny November Quotes to Help You Reduce Stress
“You can tell you’ve eaten too much before Thanksgiving when you have to take off your bathrobe.”
– Jay Leno
“November always seemed like Norway of the year to me.”
– Emily Dickinson
“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that makes your aunt rush out of the dining room to get in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert
“If one door opens and another door closes, your home is probably haunted.”
– Unknown
“The November evening had a bite; it wasn’t quite gently nibbling her cheeks and ears.
– Alexander Wootton
“I’d rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than sit on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I suppose I’ll die without knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like if you have room for it.”
–Robert Brault
“Some say autumn is the season when the leaves change. I say this is the season where my sweatpants never change.
– Katie Nicole Felton
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing to our families.”
– Jay McInerney
“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discovering it once a year is way too much.”
–Johnny Carson
Short and sweet November quotes
“The air of November is chilly and gloomy, the leaves of November are red and scorched.”
– Lord Walter Scott
“November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snow.”
–Clyde Watson
“Welcome dear November, the season of the senses and my favorite month of all.”
–Gregory F. Lenz
“Autumn is spring in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Autumn has more gold in its pocket than all other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“Autumn is a second spring, in which every leaf is a flower.”
–Albert Camus
“It seemed like the world was covered in a cobbler’s crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
– Cyril Connolly
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington
“How sad would November be if we had no knowledge of spring!”
– Edwin Way Teale
Do you want more inspiration and motivation for autumn? Check out these uplifting fall quotes, these positive fall quotes, and this post full of the best Thanksgiving quotes. You might also like the inspirational October quotes here and these May quotes for next spring.