145 Fall Captions That Will Make Your Posts Unbeleafable

Updated: Jan. 25, 2024

Looking for the perfect captions for your cozy autumn pictures? This list of fall captions has something for everybody.

Aah—warm sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes, apple picking, football games. It’s officially fall. We bet that once you’ve checked some boxes on your fall bucket list—like doing a fall reset or celebrating the first day of fall—you’re going to have a ton of fall photos to share with the world. But the hardest part about posting a cute fall photo is coming up with a great caption. We’ve rounded up some of the most creative fall captions out there, from the most sentimental fall quotes to the cutest statements and even the funniest one-liners you may have seen on your favorite fall memes. We’ve got you covered. Happy posting!

Funny fall captions

1. What’s the best thing to put into a pumpkin pie? Your fork.

2. To leaf or not to leaf, that is the question.

3. Come back later, I’m hibernating.

4. Is it really a pile of leaves if you haven’t jumped in it?

5. It’s beginning to look a lot like fall.

6. Bonfire and chill.

7. The only thing getting lit this weekend is my pumpkin spice candle.

8. An apple a day keeps away anyone if you throw it far enough.

9. I love you more than pumpkin pie—and that’s saying a lot.

10. Let there be pumpkin spice.

11. Channel the flannel.

12. Orange is the new black.

13. Can’t reply, I’m eating pie.

14. Fall is a lifestyle.

15. My blood type is pumpkin spice.

16. Trick or treat yo’ self!

11. Tea: a hug in a mug.rd.com, Getty Images

17. Tea: a hug in a mug.

18. Get yourself a pumpkin. It will never ghost you!

19. The trees really let loose this time of year.

20. I would tell you my autumn joke but you probably wouldn’t fall for it.

21. I’ve never met a pumpkin I didn’t like.

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16. I love aww-tumn!rd.com, Getty Images

Punny fall captions

22. Life is gourd.

23. May the forest be with you.

24. Felt cute, might de-leaf later.

25. Pilates?! You mean pie and lattes.

26. Fall’s well that ends well.

27. I love fall beyond a seasonable doubt.

28. I love aww-tumn!

29. Hay there!

30. Every day I’m rustlin’.

31. I should stop making apple puns now… orchard I?

32. Don’t stop be-leafing.

33. #SquashGoals

34. Fall so hard.

35. Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maple leaves.

36. Oh my gourd, I love fall.

37. Go Big or Gourd Home.

38. Orange you pumped for Halloween?

39. I’m turning over a new leaf.

40. Hate to be corny, but …

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41. Creepin it real.

42. Slipped on a pumpkin today. It caught me off gourd.

43. Don’t even chai.

44. Spice, spice baby.

33. I'm a-maized we escaped.rd.com, Getty Images

45. I’m a-maized we escaped.

46. Don’t sweat the fall stuff.

47. Giving them pumpkin to talk about.

48. I never want to leaf this beautiful place.

49. Ready to pumpkin spice things up!

50. This view is gourd-geous.

51. Orange you glad it’s fall?

52. Apple-y ever after.

53. Witch way to the pumpkin spice?

54. “Boo, Felicia.”

55. “I like you a latte.”

56. You really autumn know …

57. Beauty is in the pie of the beholder.

46. Fall breeze and autumn leaves.rd.com, Getty Images

Cute fall captions

58. Happy fall, y’all!

59. Can’t fight that fall feeling.

60. The cutest pumpkin in the patch.

61. There are two times of the year: autumn and waiting for autumn.

62. Fall is better in an oversize sweater.

63. Sippin’ on cider.

64. Weather report: light breeze and colorful leaves.

65. ‘Tis the season for apple cider donuts!

66. All I need to be happy is a cozy sweater and a good book.

67. Today’s forecast says there’s a 100% chance I’ll buy another sweater.

68. Can you tell I really missed my leather jacket?

69. Fall breeze and autumn leaves.

70. Stressed, blessed and pumpkin obsessed.

71. Happiness is a hot drink on a cold day.

72. Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.

73. Fall is a good excuse for pumpkin everything.

74. Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.

75. I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall.

76. I’m spicing things up.

77. How ’bout them apples?

78. This witch likes wine.

79. Falling in love with the fall.

80. You are the pick of the patch.

81. My favorite color is October.

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59. Keep calm and stay cozy.rd.com, Getty Images

Simple fall captions

82. Cold hands, warm heart.

83. Leaves are falling, autumn is calling.

84. Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes.

85. Turning the page into autumn.

86. Hello, pumpkin!

87. The apple to my pie.

88. Autumn’s harvest feeds the belly and the soul.

89. All the fall feels.

90. Another day, another sweater.

91. Keep calm and stay cozy.

92. Sweet like pumpkin pie.

93. Fall foliage is my favorite color.

94. Fall-ing in love.

95. Life is better in a sweater.

96. Leaves, flannel and football are all I need.

97. I love fall most of all.

98. Warm drinks, warm heart.

99. It’s finally hoodie season.

100. Spice up your life.

101. Hangin’ with the leaves.

102. All I need is tea and fuzzy socks.

103. All pumpkin everything.

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72. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." —Albert Camusrd.com, Getty Images

Quote fall captions

104. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

105. “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” —Faith Baldwin

106. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” —Delia Owens

107. “Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile.” —William Cullen Bryant

108. “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” —John Burroughs

109. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” —Emily Brontë

110. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” —Raquel Franco

111. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” —Albert Camus

112. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L.M. Montgomery

113. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” —Oscar Wilde

114. “There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves.” ―Avijeet Das

115. “If a year was tucked inside a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” —Victoria Erickson

116. “I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.” —Anna Madsen

117. “It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus.” —Hocus Pocus

118. “There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn.” —Ayana Mathis

119. “I’m a ghost with the most, babe.” —Beetlejuice

120. “A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and best of all, leaping into leaves!” —Winnie the Pooh 

121. “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

122. “There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky …” —Percy Bysshe Shelley

123. “Be like a tree, and let the dead leaves drop.” —Rumi

124. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” —Ann Drake

125. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” —Sarah Addison Allen

126. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” —Stanley Horowitz

88. “If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns." —George Eliotrd.com, Getty Images

127. “If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” —George Eliot

128. “It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” —Diana Gabaldon

129. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens the apples, the other turns them to cider.” —Jane Hirshfield

Fall captions inspired by song lyrics

130. “So if you want to love me then darlin’ don’t refrain, or I’ll just end up walkin’ in the cold November rain.” —Guns N’ Roses

131. “I come alive in the fall time.” —The Weeknd

132. “Do you remember the 21st night of September?” —Earth, Wind & Fire

133. “Float down like autumn leaves.” — Ed Sheeran

134. “I’m free, free fallin’.” —Tom Petty

135. “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place. And I can picture it after all these days.” —Taylor Swift

136. “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.” —Frank Sinatra

97. “You in your autumn sweater”—Yo La Tengord.com, Getty Images

137. “You in your autumn sweater.” —Yo La Tengo

138. “Life’s no fun without a good scare.” —Nightmare Before Christmas

139. “And the leaves that are green turn to brown, and they wither with the wind, and they crumble in your hand.” —Simon & Garfunkel

140. “The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin, but as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared, my heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within.” —Fiona Apple

141. “This autumn love.” —Death Cab for Cutie

142. “October and the trees are stripped bare.” —U2

143. “Let me hold both your hands in the holes of my sweater.” —The Neighbourhood

144. “It’s autumn in New York, it’s good to live it again.” —Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

145. “The autumn moon lights my way.” —Led Zeppelin

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