Late Summer Quotes:

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

- William F. Longgood

topic: Summer, Garden, Years, Late Summer, Summer Garden

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

topic: Summer, Country, Flower, Ripening, Late Summer

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Summer, Night, Perfection, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

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

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

- Bryan Procter

topic: Summer, Night, Light, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Long, Heaven, Soul, Late Summer

A life without love is like a year without spring.

- Octavian Paler

topic: Spring, Love Is, Years, Spring Summer, Late Summer

It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.

- Gregory Maguire

source: Gregory Maguire (2009). “Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

topic: Summer, Flower, Winter, Late Summer, Summer Flower

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

- Steve Almond

topic: Summer, School, Clothes, Late Summer, Sears

There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern...

- Iris Murdoch

topic: Summer, God, Mother, Late Summer

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Summer, Years, Broken, Late Summer

And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Summer, Smell, Wind, Late Summer, Thermodynamics

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Summer, Berries, Might, Late Summer, Sporadic