Indian Summer Quotes:

Indian summer is like a woman.

- Grace Metalious

source: Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.1, UPNE

topic: Summer, Indian Summer

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

topic: Summer, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon, Sunny Day, Spring Summer

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

- Mary C. Ames

source: "Presence", line 62 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 764-765), 1922.

topic: Summer, Autumn, Soul, Indian Summer

Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer.

- Sara Teasdale

topic: Summer, Tired, Moon, Lingering, Indian Summer

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

- Henry James

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Time, Solstice, Late Summer

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Autumn, Years, Lasts, Equinox, Autumn Days

Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.

- David James Duncan

source: David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press

topic: Summer, Beach, Ignorance, Indian Summer

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

- Sigurd F. Olson

source: Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Summer, Autumn, Wind, Bluebird, Indian Summer

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

- John Banville

topic: Summer, Long, Childhood, Immediacy, Puzzled

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

- Wallace Stegner

topic: Summer, Halloween, Night, Indian Summer

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

topic: Death, Summer, Lying, Indian Summer