45 Familiar Quotes & Song Lyrics About September

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September sits right between the last stretch of summer and the beginning of fall. It brings cooler mornings, changing routines, back-to-school memories, and songs many of us have known for years.

Musicians, poets, and writers have described the month through everything from celebration and romance to loss and reflection.

This collection brings together 45 familiar September quotes and song lyrics for captions, seasonal inspiration, or simply finding the right words for this time of year.

September Quotes

1. “Wine is the divine juice of September.” — Voltaire
2. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year.” — J.K. Rowling
3. “It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air.” — Carolyn Parkhurst
4. “There is a clarity about September.” — Faith Baldwin
5. “There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green.” — Sharyn McCrumb
6. “Life was beginning over again with the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “We will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage.” — Henry Rollins
8. “Nostalgia, that’s the autumn, dreaming through September.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
9. “September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
10. “It was like roots, like the motherland.” — Barack Obama, on his first September in Chicago
11. “Another fall, another turned page.” — Wallace Stegner
12. “The breezes taste of apple peel.” — John Updike
13. “By all these lovely tokens, September days are here.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
14. “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham
15. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
16. “Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
17. “Only lovers see the fall, a signal end to endings.” — Maya Angelou
18. “As summer wanes, we cherish every mild, dreamy day.” — Gladys Taber
19. “It was September. Autumn only in advertisements.” — Kyle Lucia Wu
20. “September was a thirty-days-long goodbye to summer.” — Lea Malot
21. “September sky never looked more charming.” — Avijeet Das
22. “If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” — Laura Jaworski
23. “Write about winter in the fall.” — Annie Dillard
24. “This windy, bright September afternoon, my heart is wide awake, yet full of dreams.” — Charles G.D. Roberts
25. “The seasonal urge is strong in poets; Longfellow liked the month of September.” — Helen Bevington
26. “It was September, in the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.” — Ray Bradbury
27. “O sweet September, thy first breezes bring the dry leaf’s rustle.” — George Arnold
28. “September has come; it is hers whose vitality leaps in the autumn.” — Louis MacNeice
29. “September’s Baccalaureate, a combination of crickets, crows, and retrospects.” — Emily Dickinson, “September’s Baccalaureate”
30. “Our ancestors called it Barley-month, for the ripening of the grain.” — Mary Jeaffreson

Familiar Song Lyrics About September

1. “Do you remember the 21st night of September?”

— Earth, Wind & Fire, “September”
Written by Maurice White, Al McKay, and Allee Willis

Few songs are connected to a calendar date as strongly as Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September.” Released in 1978, the song transformed September 21 into an unofficial day of dancing, celebrating, and flooding social media with “ba-dee-ya.”

2. “Wake me up when September ends.”

— Green Day, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”
Written by Billie Joe Armstrong

Green Day’s emotional ballad reflects grief, time, and the painful memories that can return with a particular season.

3. “September morn, we danced until the night became a brand-new day.”

— Neil Diamond, “September Morn”
Written by Neil Diamond and Gilbert Bécaud

This nostalgic song looks back on an old love and a September morning that still lingers in the singer’s memory.

4. “See you in September.”

— The Tempos, “See You in September”
Written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards

The Tempos first recorded this song in 1959. The Happenings later released their familiar hit version in 1966.

5. “That September in the rain.”

— Dinah Washington, “September in the Rain”
Written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin

Dinah Washington’s recording turns a rainy September memory into a smooth, wistful jazz standard.

6. “The warm September of my years.”

— Frank Sinatra, “The September of My Years”
Written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn

Sinatra uses September as a metaphor for entering the later years of life with reflection, maturity, and a few hard-earned truths.

7. “September girls, I don’t know why.”

— Big Star, “September Gurls”
Written by Alex Chilton

Big Star’s 1974 power-pop favorite pairs a catchy melody with the confusion and longing of young love.

8. “September grass is the sweetest kind.”

— James Taylor, “September Grass”
Written by James Taylor

Taylor’s song captures the peaceful feeling of lying in late-summer grass as the seasons begin to change.

9. “How the time passed away, all the trouble that we gave.”

— Daughtry, “September”
Written by Chris Daughtry and Josh Steely

Daughtry’s “September” looks back on childhood, old friends, and the realization that some of life’s best days are often recognized only after they are gone.

10. “Pale September, I wore the time like a dress.”

— Fiona Apple, “Pale September”
Written by Fiona Apple

Apple paints September as a quiet, intimate season tied to memory, vulnerability, and emotional change.

11. “Come September, everything wrong gonna be alright.”

— Natalie Imbruglia, “Come September”
Written by Natalie Imbruglia and Gary Clark

This hopeful line treats September as a turning point—a time when confusion may finally begin to settle.

12. “It was in September when I first met you.”

— Barry White, “September When I First Met You”
Written by Barry White, Frank Wilson, and Paul Politi

Barry White connects September with the beginning of a love that changed everything.

13. “September when it comes.”

— Rosanne Cash featuring Johnny Cash, “September When It Comes”
Written by Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal

This deeply reflective song uses September to represent acceptance, mortality, and the closing of a life chapter.

14. “Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December.”

— Willie Nelson, “September Song”
Written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson

“September Song” compares the changing months to the stages of life, reminding listeners that time moves more quickly than expected.

15. “Sometimes September won’t end.”

— JP Cooper, “September Song”
Written by JP Cooper and collaborators

JP Cooper’s song looks back on young love and the kind of memories that can make one season feel endless.

Want more inspiration and motivation for your autumn?

Then have a look at these 60 Fall Quotes About Change That Will Stay With You Long After Autumn Ends and 35 Fall Writing Prompts for Adults Who Are Ready to Get Honest With Themselves.