September has a way of sneaking up on us.
One day, it’s still summer, and the next we’re reaching for our hoodies and indulging in all things pumpkin-spiced.
Whether you’re soaking up the last warm afternoons or already counting down to sweater weather, these 20 quotes and lyrics about September are ready to caption whatever this in-between month looks like for you.
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For feeling ready for a fresh start:
“September is the other January.”
-Gretchen Rubin
For the first legitimately crisp morning of the year:
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
For your most artistic golden-hour shot:
“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”
-Virginia Woolf
For a lazy afternoon in the sun before it fully disappears:
“Happily we bask in the warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”
-Henry David Thoreau
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For appreciating everything September has to bring:
“I love September, especially when we’re in it.”
-Willie Stargell
For when the nostalgia hits out of nowhere:
“Nostalgia—that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will remember.”
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
For not feeling ready to let summer go:
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
-Bernard Williams
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For the fall aesthetic photo dump:
“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
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For golden light and blue skies:
“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
-Helen Hunt Jackson
For that perfectly clear September day:
“There is a clarity about September … the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue.”
-Faith Baldwin
For your back-to-school energy:
“The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: A month that smells like notebook paper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on.”
–Vanishing Girls, Lauren Oliver
For when the month does exactly what it’s supposed to:
“September showed up right on schedule and lasted a whole month.”
-Jenny Wingfield
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For your coziest, most whimsical photo:
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
-Winnie the Pooh
For turning the page on a new chapter:
“Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” –
Wallace Stegner
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For a caption with a little extra warmth:
“September! I never tire of turning it over in my mind. It has warmth, depth, and color. It glows like old amber.”
-Patience Strong
For a nostalgic, sun-soaked throwback:
“Do you remember the 21st night of September?”
-“September,” Earth, Wind & Fire
For a bittersweet end-of-summer caption:
“In the middle of September, we’d still play out in the rain. Nothing to lose but everything to gain.”
-“September,” Daughtry
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For chasing that last bit of sunshine:
“September, won’t you bring me some rain again? This sun is melting my skin.”
-“September,” Marianas Trench
For feeling fully ready to move on from summer:
“Let’s blame it on September,’cause no summer lasts forever.”
-“Blame It On September.” Allstar Weekend
For the moment that’s dreary but unforgettable:
“Glistening grass from September rain, grey overpass full of neon names.”
-“Ruin The Friendship,” Taylor Swift
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