75 Summer Quotes
Welcome back to my site! We are getting close to finishing off another incredible summer filled with happiness, sorrow, challenges, chaos, and adventure. As we are approaching fall, I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite summer quotes. Enjoy!
“There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.”
— Gertrude Jekyll
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
–Charles Bowden
“I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.”
— Lucy Stone
“When all else fails, take a vacation.”
–Betty Williams
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
–Al Bernstein
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
–Katie Lee
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.”
–Unknown
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
–Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they’re gone.”
–Nicholas Sparks
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
–Debasish Mridha, “Sweet Rhymes from Sweet Hearts“
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”
–Unknown
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
–Jeannette Walls, “The Glass Castle”
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
–Anna Godbersen, “Bright Young Things”
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
–Susan Branch
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
–William Carlos Williams
“School’s out. Scream and shout!”
-Unknown
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
— Charles Bowden
“Summer: Hair gets lighter. Water gets warmer. Nights get longer. Life gets better.”
-Unknown
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.”
— John Lubbock
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.”
— John Cheever
“Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?”
— Eugene Kennedy
“In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words.”
— William Carlos Williams
“I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe…”
— Evelyn Waugh, “Brideshead Revisited”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
–John Steinbeck
“I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.”
— Emily Dickinson
“How quick time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks.”
— John Goodman
“Dancing days are here again, As the summer evenings grow.”
— Led Zeppelin, “Dancing Days”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
— William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XVIII”
“Well, summer slipped us underneath her tongue / Our days and nights are perfumed with obsession”
— Lorde, “The Louvre”
“The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.”
— Vicki Baum
“Summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.”
— “Summertime,” by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
-Russell Baker
“Swim through the serene summer sky.”
— Virgil
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
-Langston Hughes
“I can’t wait to fall in love with you / You can’t wait to fall in love with me / This just can’t be summer love, you’ll see.”
— Justin Timberlake, “Summer Love”
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
-Anton Chekhov
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
-Henry James
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”
-Diane Ackerman
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
-John Burroughs
“The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.”
-John Tyler Bonner
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
-Charles Dickens
“Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.”
-Bryan Procter
“Tears are the summer showers to the soul.”
-Alfred Austin
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
-Regina Brett
“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
-Aristotle
“Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.”
-Jackie Kennedy
“Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.”
-Sydney J. Harris
“I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.”
-Alice Waters
“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.”
-Thomas Carlyle
“Every summer’s mine.”
-DJ Khaled
“Summer night – even the stars are whispering to each other.”
-Kobayashi Issa
“I felt like summer had taken me over.”
-Junot Diaz
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
-Russell Baker
“Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.”
-Gayland Anderson
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
-Lilly Pulitzer
“Potential is like a summer crop. If it don’t rain, it don’t grow.”
-Charles Oakley
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
-Debasish Mridha
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
-Helen Keller
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
-Maud Hart Lovelace
“We know summer is the height of being alive.”
-Gary Shteyngart
“I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.”
-Robert Bridges
“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.”
-Nat King Cole
“In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.”
-Margaret Atwood
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.”
-John Steinbeck
“To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie—true poems flee.”
-Emily Dickinson
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
-Audrey Hepburn
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
-Langston Hughes
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.”
-Jim Rohn
Summer to Autumn:
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.”
-Helen Hunt Jackson
“There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.”
-Rudolfo Anaya
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