160 Best Fall Quotes and Captions for Instagram 2024

Are you tired of taking stunning fall photos for Instagram but not having any caption ideas?

I’ve been there! I’ve taken photoshoots at apple orchards, going on epic fall hikes, and even posed amongst pumpkins. But then I get home, ready to post these epic shots, and have no idea what to say.

I end up reusing the same fall captions every year and abusing the leaf emoji until it’s first on my phone’s keyboard.

Ditch the tired fall captions and use these amazing autumn sayings this year!

Your feed – and your audience – will thank you.

Choose from epic autumn quotes from famous authors, unique fall song lyrics, funny fall captions, and even some sweet sayings. I’ve pulled out my top 10 fall captions for Instagram to help you get started.

What are you waiting for? Start falling in love with your new Instagram feed today!

Make the most of fall with a cozy cabin!

Best Fall Captions for Instagram

After literal years of posting leaf emojis under photos, I finally stepped up my game.

These are my favourite Instagram captions for fall pictures. Whether you’re looking for a pun, a simple line, or something more insightful, you’ll score with these great one-liners.

• The only thing getting lit this weekend is my pumpkin spice candle.
• Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maple leaves.
• Fall’s well that ends well
• I love aww-tumn!
• It’s almost time for me to switch from my everyday anxiety to my Christmas anxiety
• Happy fall, y’all!
• Fall is my second favourite f-word
• Fall: that beautiful time between boob sweat and frostbite
• Crisp air, don’t care
• Let’s get smashed!

Cute Captions for Fall Pictures

Fall is a time for cozy and cute. So your captions should be, too!

Check out these cute captions for autumn Instagram pictures. I love adding a pumpkin emoji or a leaf to turn these adorable captions into something more unique.

• Don’t sweat the fall stuff
• I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall
• I’d like to see you s’more.
• Don’t stop be-leafing.
• Give it your all in fall!
• It’s fall coming back to me now.
• Deck the halls with all-things fall-y.
• My favorite color is October! 
• Felt cute might de-leaf later
• Would you be-leaf I took this photo on the first try?
• Fall in love with moments
• Hayrides are my preferred mode of fall transportation.
• Let the gourd times roll.
• Hooray for hayrides!

Simple Autumn Instagram Captions

Let’s get back to basics with these simple fall captions.

These go perfectly with any fall photo, no matter what the image is of.

You’ll love these short, but effective captions that will show off your autumnal vibes.

• Long sleeves & falling leaves
• Cozy sweater, hot coffee, fall leaves, repeat
• Happiness is a hot drink on a cold day.
• There are two times of the year. Autumn and waiting for autumn.
• Joy is sipping apple cider on an autumn day.
• A cool breeze and colorful leaves.
• Fresh starts and fireplace sparks.
• Cinnamon scented candles and cozy fires.
• Brisk hikes give me life.
• Warm drinks, warm heart.
• All I need is tea and fuzzy socks.
• Bonfire and chill.
• Crisp, colorful and cool.
• Ignite your campfire desire.
• Keep calm and stay cozy.

Autumn Leaves Captions

Is there anything better than a picture of fall foliage?

I’m OBSESSED with the changing colours of leaves. I genuinely travel the world to check them out (although the best ones are in my home country of Canada).

Let’s change up your captions this year and get some new autumn leaf inspiration.

• Free fallin’
• You are never too old to play in the leaves.
• Leaves are falling, autumn is calling
• Even the leaves fall for you
• Take a hike 🍁
• The trees really let loose this time of year
• Determined to step on all the crunchy leaves.
• Oh my gourd, look at these leaves!
• These fall colors are unbeLEAFable
• Falling leaves, autumn breeze, what more do you need?
• Rustling leaves under your feet brings all the fall feels.

Pumpkin Spice Captions

Hi, I’m Nina, and I’m a PSL addict.

Well, I’m a pumpkin addict. I love pumpkin EVERYTHING. So of course I love pumpkin spice!

That’s why I created a whole section dedicated to everything pumpkin spice-y.

You won’t be basic with these unique captions for Instagram!

• Pumpkin spice and everything nice.
• Sorry for what I said when I didn’t have my pumpkin spice latte 🤭
• What’s my blood type? Pumpkin spice.
• Pumpkin spice, leggings, and hoodies oh my!
• I love you a pumpkin-latte
• Ready to pumpkin spice things up!
• PSL pics or it didn’t happen.
• Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, pass the pumpkin spice and make it double!
• Spicing things up
• Spice, spice baby!
• Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about.

Fall Captions for Apple Picking

My favourite fall activity is apple picking.

I’ve gone since I was a kid. We’d pack up the car as a family and spend a day at an orchard near Toronto in October. Then we’d come home and have apples for days – it’s a great excuse for a ton of pie!

If you’re just as much of an apple lover, you’ll love these fall captions for apple picking.

• An apple a day keeps away anyone if you throw it far enough.
• How ’bout them apples?
• …And they lived apple-y ever after!
• Finally found someone tall enough to reach the apples I like!
• I find you a-peel-ing!
• You are the apple (pie) of my eye
• Gone 🍎 picking!
• Apple picking and caramel dipping.

Fun Pumpkin Captions for Instagram

I did say I was obsessed with pumpkins, right?

I genuinely make pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin salads, and more every fall!

That’s why I need a lot of pumpkin captions for my Instagram. Hopefully, you do, too!

Check out my favourite pumpkin captions to spice up your autumn pics.

• Pumpkin patch exploring is my part-time job for the next three months
• Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes
• Pick of the patch
• Make sure you “carve” out some me-time this fall.
• I’ve never met a pumpkin I didn’t like.
• Cutest pumpkin in the patch
• Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.
• Pumpkin kisses, harvest wishes.
• Blessed and pumpkin-obsessed.
• Easy as pumpkin pie.
• The season of pumpkin patch photos commences
• Fall if my excuse for pumpkin everything
• Orange is the new black.
• Autumn leaves and pumpkins please.
• Hay there!

Funny Fall Captions

Laughter is the best.

I love posting a fun Instagram picture where I don’t take myself too seriously. That needs to be paired with a funny caption.

These are the best funny fall captions to use to get a laugh with your next photo.

• Don’t even chai.
• Pie beg your pardon!
• Beauty is in the pie of the beholder.
• Pro Tip: Keep pie from drying out be eating it all in one sitting
• Go Big or Gourd Home.
• I’m all about that baste (bout that baste)
• This view is gourd-geous.
• Don’t even chai to say you love fall more than me.
• Orange you glad it’s fall?

Sweater Weather Captions

It’s time to bundle up in your cable knit and curl up with a good book and a cuppa!

Embrace sweater weather with these autumn Instagram caption ideas.

You’ll be inspiring others to cozy up in their warm clothes with your posts if you add in these great sayings.

• Sweater weather is better together
• Flannel Fridays
• Channel the flannel and be nice to the spice!
• The first day of fall means sweating in my favorite sweater
• Early sunsets, warm tea, messy hair, warm sweaters
• Turtlenecks and chilly treks.
• Firepits and cozy knits.
• It’s finally hoodie season.
• Life is better in a sweater.

Fall Captions for Couples Pictures

I may be single, but that doesn’t mean I don’t post couples captions … with my dog.

Use these fall captions to show off your best gal, girl, or pet!

• Baby, you light my bonfire
• I got the cutest pumpkin in the patch 🍁
• Fallin’ for you
• You are gourdeous!
• My favourite pumpkin in the patch
• You are the pick of the patch.
• Where you leaf, I will FALLow…
• Catch me fallin’ in love with the world around me
• I only have pies for you.

Funny Fall Puns and Jokes

I couldn’t resist including some jokes bad enough to be in a Christmas cracker.

If you’re a dad joke fanatic like me, or just super cheesy, you’ll love these puns!

• What did one leaf say to the other? I’m falling for you
• My favourite fall outfit is a har-vest
• What did one leaf say to the other? I’m falling for you.
• What is the cutest season? Awwtumn.
• How do you fix a broken pumpkin? With a pumpkin patch

Spooky Fall Captions for Instagram

Fall means Halloween is here!

I’m not a huge fan of scary, but I do love spooky.

You’ll never catch me at a haunted house, but I’ll definitely dress up and make stupid jokes.

Live your fall-Halloween dreams with these spooky Instagram caption ideas.

• This witch likes wine.
• Eat, drink, and be scary.
• Resting witch face
• Creepin’ it real
• I’m here for the boos
• If you’ve got it, haunt it
• Ghosted in october? How festive
• Fa-boo-lous
• Keep calm and scare on.
• I can’t be held responsible for stolen candy.
• Trick or treat yo’ self!
• “I’m a ghost with the most, babe.” – Beetlejuice
• “I’m a mouse, duh.” – Mean Girls
• “It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus”— Hocus Pocus
• “Something wicked this way comes.” — William Shakespeare

Quotes for the Fall

Looking for something literary? Check out these best quotes for the fall!

They’ll class up any Instagram feed and help add an air of sophistication to your moody leaf shot.

As a literature major, I’ve read my fair share of books waxing poetic about the spring. It’s time autumn got its due!

So I’ve found the best autumn quotes for you to use this pumpkin season.

• “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, falling from the autumn tree.” — Emily Bronte
• “Be like a tree, and let the dead leaves drop.” — Rumi
• “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
• “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” — Shira Tamir
• “Life is like an Autumn; short but colourful” – Zain Baloch
• “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
• “When the first leaf falls, something jumps in my heart.” — Julia Ward Howe
• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
• “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Camus
• “Autumn whispered to the wind “I fall; but always rise again.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby
• “There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn.” — Ayana Mathis
• “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” — William Wordsworth
• “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson
• “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen
• “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”  — William Cullen Bryant
• “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”  — Chad Sugg
• “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
• “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield

Song Lyrics for Fall Captions

Instagram is the best place to showcase some song lyrics.

Check out these autumn lyrics to add as a fall caption to any picture.

• “It’s autumn in New York it’s good to live it again.” — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
• “Let me hold both your hands in the holes of my sweater.” — The Neighbourhood
• ““Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place.” — Taylor Swift
• “Wake me up when September ends.” — Green Day
• “I’m still in love with you, I want to see you dance again. Because I’m still in love with you on this harvest moon.” — Neil Young
• “Oh, the leaves are turning gold. Each night’s a little bluer, but autumn’s not that cold.” — Lorrie Morgan
• “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.” — Frank Sinatra
• “I come alive in the fall time.” — The Weeknd
• “Through the trees comes autumn with her serenade.” — Johnny Coltrane
• “But I’m just not that lonesome and autumn’s not that cold.” — Lorrie Morgan

20 Hashtags for Fall on Instagram

Make sure your pictures get seen on Instagram!

These are 20 of the best fall hashtags to use with your captions of Instagram.

• #autumnleaves
• #fallvibes
• #autumnvibes
• #fallcolors
• #falldecor
• #spookyseason
• #sweaterweather
• #pumpkinspice
• #leaves
• #leafpeeper
• #instaautumn
• #fallfashion
• #autumnaesthetic
• #autumnal
• #foliage
• #ilovefall
• #cozyfall
• #fallfashion
• #autumnweather
• #halloweeneveryday

Fall Captions for Instagram: Final Thoughts

Fall in love with fall again thanks to the best fall captions for Instagram.

You’ll be the PSL queen, slaying with all of your amazing photos and the fun captions that keep your followers coming back for more.

Whether you’re an influencer with thousands of followers, or rocking your private personal account, these captions and hashtags will work for you!

Have fun snapping autumn pictures!

Don’t forget to tag @ninaclapperton so I can check out your amazing fall captions on Instagram.

Make the most of fall with a cozy cabin!

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