These summer quotes will inspire you. Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, falling after spring and before autumn.
At or around the summer solstice (about 3 days before Midsummer Day), the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occur, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging summer quotes, summer sayings, and summer proverbs.
Best Summer Quotes
- “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” ~ Langston Hughes
- “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
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“May summer last a hundred years.” ~ Frances Mayes
- “it’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” ~ Kenny Chesney
- “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~ Henry James
- “Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.” ~ John Muir , Summer quotes life
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“In summer, the song sings itself.” ~ William Carlos Williams
- “Then followed that beautiful season… Summer…. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.” ~ Elizabeth von Arnim
- “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus
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“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.” ~ Celia Thaxter
- “If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?” ~ Steven Wright
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“The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.” ~ Anais Nin
- “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
- “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” ~ John Donne
- “Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.” ~ Ada Louise Huxtable
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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.” ~ Billy Graham
- “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
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“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” ~ Hosea Ballou
- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” ~ Russell Baker
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ~ John Lubbock
- “That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.” ~ John Keats
- “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” ~ Wallace Stevens
- “summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.” ~ Deb Caletti
- “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.” ~ Mark Twain
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“I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
- “We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there’s only future, there’s only here, there’s only now.” ~ Van Morrison , Endless summer quotes
- “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.” ~ Bar Refaeli
- “It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.” ~ John Cheever
- “The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” ~ Sebastian Faulks
- “I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.” ~ Jack McBrayer
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“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “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
- “Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.” ~ Bryan Procter
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“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.” ~ Edward Hoagland
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“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.” ~ Gertrude Jekyll
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“But thy eternal summer shall not fade.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!” ~ Walt Whitman - “The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.” ~ Leonard Cohen
- “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ~ John Keats
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“I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles.” ~ Cole Porter
- “Summer has set in with its usual severity.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” ~ Patricia Briggs
- “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.” ~ Emily Dickinson
