Quotes About Summer

Warm up to these quotations for the season

Summer is finally here, and we’re all thinking about what we’ll be doing to get some rest and relaxation, and fun in the sun, for the next three months. These quotes are a celebration of summer, the epitome of what people think about this time of year.

1. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” -Russel Baker

2. “A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” -Raymond Duncan

3. “Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” -James Dent

5. “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James

6. “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” -Bern Williams

7. “Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.” -Georg Brandes

8. “In summer, the song sings itself.” -William Carlos Williams

9. “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus

10. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” -John Steinbeck

11. “In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “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

13. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” -Anton Chekhov

14. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay

15. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” -Benjamin Alire Sáenz

16. “Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.” -Yukio Mishima

17. “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” -Langston Hughes

18. “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” -Hosea Ballou

19. “To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie — True Poems flee — ” -Emily Dickinson

20. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” -Sam Keen

21. “Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August.” -Jenny Han

22. “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.” -Sam Cooke

23. “Summer has set in with its usual severity.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

24. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” -Charles Bowden

25. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” -Wallace Stevens

26. “Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.” -Bryan Procter

27. “Summer night — even the stars are whispering to each other.” -Kobayashi Issa

28. “We know summer is the height of being alive.” -Gary Shteyngart

29. “Tears are the summer showers to the soul.” -Alfred Austin 30. “The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.” -William Cullen Bryant 31. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” -C. Day Lewis

33. “Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” -Nora Ephron 34. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” -Jeannette Walls

35. “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.” -Benjamin Alire Sáenz

36. “It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.” -John Cheever

37. “Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame….” -Francis Thompson

38. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” -John Lubbock

39. “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” -Dodie Smith

40. “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer — its dust and lowering skies.” -Toni Morrison

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