30+ Most Memorable November Quotes

November Quotes – The month of November is often skimmed due to how close it is to the Christmas season. However, there are more than a few things to appreciate about the 11th month of the year. Just as there are lines that highlight other months in the year, there are quotes that highlight November. Whether it be appreciating the season it falls under or the holiday it holds, there are plenty of interesting lines that talk about November. If you are interested on how November can be made interesting, here are some of the most memorable November quotes to check out:

• “There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.”
  – Mehmet Murat ildan
• “Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
  – Gregory F. Lenz
• “November’s sky is chill an drear, November’s life is red and sear.”
  – Sir Walter Scott
• “Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
  – Gladys Taber
• “The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.”
  – Henry David Thoreau
• “Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
  – Cyril Connolly
• “Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
  – Gladys Taber
• “November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”
  – Jean Hersey
• “In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
  Cynthia Rylant
• “November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows. With night coming early and dawn coming late, and ice in the bucket and frost by the gate. The fires burn, and the kettles sing, and earth sinks to rest until next spring.”
  – Clyde Watson, ‘Frost by the Gate’

Thoughtful November Quotes

• “The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
  – Henry Rollins
• “In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
  – Martha Gellhorn
• “November woods are bare and still. November days are bright and good. Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill. Life’s night rests feet which long have stood.”
  – Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
• “Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.”
  – Peggy Toney Horton
• “November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”
  – Gladys Taber
• “November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths…”
  – Edward Thomas
• “It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sunsets sterner and Gibraltar lights make the village foreign. November always seems to me the Norway of the year.”
  –  Emily Dickinson
• “Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.”
  – Alexander L. Fraser
• “The house was very quiet, and the fog we are in November now pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
  – E.M. Forster
• “Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.”
  – E. E. Cummings
• “This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts — that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless — perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year.”
  – Henry David Thoreau
• “But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.”
  – L.M. Montgomery

Other Poetic Lines Relating to November

• “November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.” – Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
• “November is secret and silent.” – Allison Uttley
• “In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures.” – Cynthia Rylant
• “November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows.”
  – Clyde Watson
• “The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… ”
  – Aldo Leopold
• “In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”
  – Cynthia Rylant, ‘In November’
• “I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures.”
  – Henry Rollins
• “It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
  – Rainbow Rowell
• “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
  – Amy Grant 
• “Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!”
  – Charmaine J. Forde
• “November: The last month of autumn, but the beginning of a new adventure; time to take a risk and do the unexpected.”

Check out more quotes about months and seasons with our Positive October Quotes and Quotes About the Autumn Season.