Quotes About August

Holding on to the last fleeting days of summer

It always happens this way: One minute we are ushering in summer and almost as quickly as it arrived, here comes August and we realize there are not a lot of days left in the season to enjoy. These quotes are about August, and how we enjoy the last fleeting days of summer.

1. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” -Sylvia Plath

2. “Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there’s a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?” -Elizabeth Enright

3. “August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” -Henry Rollins

4. “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” -Sue Monk Kidd

5. “August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.” -Willard Scott

6. “This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” -Sara Baume

7. “August is like the Sunday of summer.” -Unknown

8. “August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear — the first sign of advancing autumn.” -Victor Nekrasov 9. “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.” -Natalie Babbitt

10. “Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.” -Donald G. Mitchell 11. “Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone’s noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.” -Tove Jansson

12. “August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.” -Rasmenia Massoud

13. “In August, an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.” -Kelsey Brickl

14. “August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!” -John Burroughs

15. “August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.” -Crestless Wave 16. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” -Jenny Han

17. “August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.” -Mary Oliver

18. “Now August comes with a dreamy haze of heat.” -Gladys Taber

19. “August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.” -Jonathan Safran Foer 20. “Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us — long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” -Lauren Oliver

21. “August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.” -Jean Hersey

22. “Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” -Denise Levertov

23. “One day you discover you are alive. Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight! You laugh, you dance around, you shout. But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” -Ray Bradbury

24. “August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” -Joseph Wood Krutch

25. “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.” -Ralph Waldo Emmerson

26. “Summertime, and the reading is easy…Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.” -Michael Dirda 27. “August breeze — perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.” -Meeta Ahluwalia

28. “That August time it was delight To watch the red moons wane to white.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne

29. “August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is borne….” -Sara Coleridge

30. “Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified.” -Denis Mackail

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