Summertime brings warm weather, festive BBQs, beach days, and relaxing afternoons by the pool.
Our summer quotes will help you make the most of the season and remind you to savor the long days while they last.
The Best Summer Quotes
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We’ve selected the best quotes about summer that inspire us to appreciate the season despite the heat.
We hope they motivate you to have your own version of #hotgirlsummer and cherish the season’s bounty.
Enjoy!
Summer Quotes for Summer Vibes
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Are you ready to vibe and take on the world this summer?
These quotes will help you get in the mood for beaches, BBQs, and all the joys summer brings!
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.” – Michele Elder
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” – Unknown
“’Cause I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, lazin’ on a sunny afternoon” – The Kinks
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” — Jenny Han
“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
“It’s a hot girl summer so you know she got it lit (uh, uh)” Megan Thee Stallion Feat. Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign
“I’m gonna soak up the sun while it’s still free, I’m gonna soak up the sun before it goes out on me” – Sheryl Crow
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”– John Mayer
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”– Kellie Elmore
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“There’s an air of love and of happiness, and this is the Fresh Prince’s new definition of summer madness” – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.”– Sam Cooke
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson
“Summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape…” – Harper Lee
“Summer is a kiss of the sun, a dance of the waves, a moment of clouds.” – Unknown
“Long summer days can calm the angriest of beasts.” – Bert McCoy
“Celebrate summer, sundrenched days and starlit nights.” – Gooseberry Patch
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“Summer just opens the door and lets you out.” – Deb Caletti
“Summer breeze makes me feel fine.” – Seals & Crofts
“Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July, people dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream, singing Italian songs” – Chicago
“On an island in the sun, we’ll be playin’ and havin’ fun and it makes me feel so fine I can’t control my brain” – Weezer
“Soft kisses on a summer’s day, laughing all our cares away, just you and I” – Chad & Jeremy
“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” – Kellie Elmore
Inspirational Quotes About Summer
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Summer inspires us to enjoy our lives. Something about the long days and bright sunny skies makes us dream up a world of possibilities.
These inspirational summer quotes will motivate you to seize the day this season!
“Summer is a verb.” – Lisa Birnbach
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
“When the weather’s fine, we go fishin’ or go swimmin’ in the sea. We’re always happy, life’s for livin’, yeah, that’s our philosophy.” – Mungo Jerry
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” – Debasish Mridha
“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
“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
“It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore
Made in Canva.
“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
“I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the sun, it’s for everyone, in the sun, we’re gonna have some fun” – Blondie
“It was a splendid summer morning, and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.”- John Cheever
“We know summer is the height of being alive. ” – Gary Shteyngart
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.” – Lucy Stone
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” – Sarah Dessen
Poetic Summer Quotes
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The wonders of the season inspired the world’s best poets to write verse celebrating growth, sunshine, and the glorious days of our lives.
These poetic words remind us to savor the beauty in summer’s moments.
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
“Oh, summer has clothed the earth in a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies’ soft blue, And a belt where the rivers run.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high. Your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’, So hush, little baby, baby, don’t you cry” – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
“Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.” – Kate Chopin
“Full of joy is early Summer, Growth and warmth and golden light; Every day is crowned with beauty, Full of loveliness the night.” – Ellwood Roberts
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“For out of the old, old long-ago Come the summer days that I used to know, When I learned life’s truths from my father’s lips As I shared the joy of his fishing-trips.” – Edgar Guest
“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
“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
“Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.” – Paul Pitchford
“Our Summer made her light escape into the Beautiful.” – Emily Dickinson
“The sun shines bright, the skies are blue, each moment feels so fresh, so new. A gentle breeze through trees does play, bringing joy to every day.” – Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes Comparing Thee to a Summer’s Day
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 asks, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” and started a centuries-long trend of comparing things (and people) of great beauty to the wonderful glory of summer.
These quotes might not be about summer, but they use summer as a symbol to represent the best life has to offer.
“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,” – William Shakespeare
“It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime.” – Bon Jovi
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”– Langston Hughes
“She holds the heat, the breeze of summer, in the circle of her hand. I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.” – Maggie Stiefvater
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish proverb
“Love is like a summer night, mysterious but beautiful and heartwarming. ” – Unknown
“Laughter is the sunshine that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo
“Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, / As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.” – Samuel Rogers
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney
“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.” – Michael Faudet
“I will always seek to make it summer for you.” – Leigh Bardugo
“Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.” – Ray Bradbury
“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
Wistful Summer Quotes
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Nothing gold can stay, even the golden days of summer.
These wistful quotes use summer’s end to remind us of the fleeting nature of the season, of love, and of life itself. They also remind us that all the possibilities present in the season don’t mean a thing if we don’t act to enjoy it.
Although sometimes sad, they often inspire hope, reminding us that things must change, and that’s not always a bad thing.
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.” – E.B. White
“Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” – Evelyn Waugh
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
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“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” – George R.R. Martin
“Yes, it’s gonna be a cold, lonely summer, but I’ll fill the emptiness. I’ll send you all my dreams every day in a letter sealed with a kiss.” – Bobby Vinton
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” – Anna Godbersen
“Kiss me hard before you go, summertime sadness, I just wanted you to know that, baby, you the best” – Lana Del Rey
“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
“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” – Yoko Ono
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Oh, when I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever, and if I had the choice Yeah, I’d always wanna be there, those were the best days of my life” – Bryan Adams
“Sometimes I wonder What I’m a-gonna do, but there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues” – Eddie Cochran
“But Oh….Those Summer Nights” – Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
“Like painted kites, those days and nights they went flyin’ by, the world was new, beneath a blue umbrella sky, then softer than, a piper man, one day it called to you. I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind.” – Frank Sinatra
“Summer came and left without a warning, all at once I looked and you were gone.” – Richard Marx
“One summer never ends, one summer never begins. It keeps me standing still, it takes all my will” – The Motels
Funny Summer Quotes
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Enjoy your summer quotes with a side of sass!
“I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.” – Unknown
“Summer—the time when parents realize how underpaid teachers actually are.” – Unknown
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” – Al Bernstein
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”– Walter Winchell
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” – Jimmy Buffett
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“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” – James Dent
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” – Patricia Briggs
“I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.”– Unknown
“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
What’s Your Favorite Summer Quote?
I hope these fabulous summertime quotes inspired you to make the most of the season. Share your favorites in the comments!
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Melanie Allen is an American journalist and happiness expert. She has bylines on MSN, the AP News Wire, Wealth of Geeks, Media Decision, and numerous media outlets across the nation and is a certified happiness life coach. She covers a wide range of topics centered around self-actualization and the quest for a fulfilling life.
