In the summer, there’s so much to look forward to! These summer quotes will get you in the mood for the most enjoyable season of the year.
Many of us look forward to the first day of summer all year, whether it begins early on Memorial Day weekend or around the solstice in June.
Vacations at the beach. It’s time to go to the pool. Ice cream and swimsuits. Long days, short nights, sunshine, mild weather, and school vacations are all factors to consider. Is it any surprise that the summer months make us feel happy and carefree?
If you’re not ready for summer yet, we’ve got all the ideas you’ll need! Continue reading for some of the best summer quotes… Before you know it, those long, hot days will be here.
We’ve gathered the best travel quotes to motivate you to get there, whether you’re heading to a new city for a week, taking a gap year before college, or making a large change.
50+ Summer Quotes to Feel Happy and Carefree
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, The Great Gatsby
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?― Dodie Smith
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.― Edna St. Vincent Millay
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.___Sylvia Plath
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.― Maud Hart Lovelace
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.___Marcus Tullius Cicero
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.― E. Lockhart
I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.___Susan Branch
Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.___John Mayer
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.― John Steinbeck
In summer, the song sings itself.__William Carlos Williams
Summertime is always the best of what might be.___Charles Bowden
Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible.― Albert Camus
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.― Henry James
December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.___Brian Wilson
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.― William Shakespeare
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
Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.― Nora Ephron
I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket. – Kellie Elmore
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.___Henry James
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.___Henry David Thoreau
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…― susan polis schutz
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
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.― George R.R. Martin
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.___John Steinbeck
If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed. – Unknown
Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.___Bryan Procter
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.___John Steinbeck
We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.___Jenny Uglow
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.___Wilma Rudolph
I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.___Don Green
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. – Jenny Han
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.___Wallace Stevens
Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.― Pablo Neruda
Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.___Unknown
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.___Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.― Ray Bradbury
One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.___Jeanette Walls
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.___Edna St. Vincent Mallay
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. – Sam Keen
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.___Aimee Friedman
You are so much sunshine in every square inch.___Walt Whitman
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.― Patricia Briggs
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…― Evelyn Waugh
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.___Robert Orben
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. – Al Bernstein
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.___Celia Thaxter
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.___William Shakespeare
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.___Helen Keller
Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.___Kellie Elmore
In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.___Mungo Jerry
All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.___L.M. Montgomery
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.___Anna Godberson
When all else fails, take a vacation.– Betty Williams
It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!___Kenny Chesney
If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.___Evelyn Waugh
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.___C. Day Lewis