20 Heartwarming November Quotes
November bridges autumn and winter, wrapping the world in calm hues of gold, brown, and gray. It’s a month that invites reflection, gratitude, and togetherness. The air cools, days shorten, and we naturally slow down, taking time to appreciate what we have before the rush of the holidays.
November: Key Dates
- All Saints’ Day (November 1st): A Christian holy day honoring all saints, known and unknown, celebrated worldwide.
- Diwali (dates vary, often October or November): The Hindu Festival of Lights, symbolizing the victory of light over darkness.
- Thanksgiving (Fourth Thursday, U.S.): America’s harvest festival centered on gratitude, family gatherings, and shared meals.
- World Kindness Day (November 13th): Encourages small acts of kindness to create global goodwill.
- Native American Heritage Month: The entire month celebrates the rich cultures, traditions, and contributions of Native peoples.
- Movember (All November): A global campaign raising awareness for men’s health issues like cancer and mental well-being.
- Famous Birthdays: Notable November birthdays include writers Albert Camus, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, William Blake, and Mark Twain, as well as scientist Marie Curie.
Whether it’s cozy firesides, quiet reflection, or gatherings of gratitude, November quotes capture the heart of a month that reminds us to slow down, appreciate life’s simple moments, and prepare for new beginnings ahead.
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, Complete poems (ed. Liveright, 1991), Page 824
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. Henry David Thoreau, Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (ed. Houghton, Mifflin, 1892) Page 330
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. D. H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence (ed. Viking Press, 1964), Volume I, Page 455
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (ed. Roberts Brothers, 1868), Chapter XV, Page 230
In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. Cynthia Rylant, In November (ed. Harcourt Brace, 2000), Page 26
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, The Sand Country of Aldo Leopold (ed. Sierra Club, 1973), Page 74
Long cold nights mark November’s return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. Gladys Taber, Still Cove Journal (ed. Harper & Row, 1981), Page 126
Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.Alexander Louis Fraser, The World Book (ed. W. F. Quarrie & Co., 1923), Volume VII, Page 4307
November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air. Anne Bosworth Greene, The Lone Winter (ed. Century Company, 1923), Page 47
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s life is red and sear. Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (ed. W. P. Nimmo, 1865), Page 71
November always seems to me the Norway of the year. Emily Dickinson, Letter to J. G. Holland (1864); in The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), Page 260
How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring. Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons (ed. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1987), Page 232
November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows.Elizabeth Coatsworth, Poems and rhymes (ed. World Book-Childcraft International, 1976), Page 72
In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.Martha Gellhorn, The Heart of Another (ed. C. Scribner's Sons, 1941) Page 137
A tedious season they await, who hear November at the gate. Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (ed. The Heritage Press, 1943), Page 73
Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are whirling fast. Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children (ed. John W. Parker & Son, 1853), Page 10
Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Daybook (J. B. Lippincott, 1955), Page 161
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, The Shape of a Year (ed. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967), Page 204
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November! Thomas Hood, Poems of Thomas Hood (ed. Henry Frowde, 1907), Page 455
November is usually such a disagreeable month… as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (ed. L. C. Page & Co., 1909), Chapter X, Page 95
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