Summertime is a magical season that provides us with months of sunshine, warm days, and good vibes. To honor the allure of this special season, we’ve compiled 100 quotes to give perspective and appreciation to the beauty and adventure that comes with every summer.
Whether it’s a delightful memory or an inspiring outlook for the future; these quotes cover everything from optimism to nostalgia about the carefree summer days we always look forward to.
Escape into these words of wisdom and enjoy our favorite time of year in all its glory!
- When all else fails, take a vacation. -Betty Williams
- When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, and no trouble is too difficult to overcome. -Wilma Rudolph
- I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. -Robert Bridges
- Summertime is always the best of what might be. -Charles Bowden
- it’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime! -Kenny Chesney
- Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves. -Debasish Mridha
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -Russell Baker
- Long summer days can calm the angriest of beasts. -Bert McCoy
- To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie – true poems flee. -Emily Dickinson
- I just wanna lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted. –Kevin Malone
- Summer means happy times and good sunshine. – Brian Wilson
- Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. -Bryan Procter
- Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. -Sam Cooke
- If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… -Evelyn Waugh
- 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
- 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
- Tears are the summer showers to the soul. -Alfred Austin
- Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet. -Justin Timberlake
- When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill. -Taylor Swift
- Look, if I could run across the beach into my own arms, I would. –Jackie Burkhart
- I wanna soak up the sun. -Sheryl Crow
- In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different. -John Steinbeck
- You can feel it in the streets. On a day like this, the heat I feel like summer. -Childish Gambino
- Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
- Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. -George R.R. Martin
- 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
- Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. -Bryan Proctor
- It’s summer and time for wandering… -Kellie Elmore
- All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer… one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends, and delightful doing, come as near perfection as anything can come in this world. -L.M. Mongomery
- Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, enjoying the scenery, and having fun with family and friends. –Brian Wilson
- It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime. -Bon Jovi
- 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
- Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. -Langston Hughes
- Do what we can, summer will have its flies. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… -Susan Polis Schutz
- Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier. -Zooey Deschanel
- Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
- I like summer, I like warmer weather and long days. -Danielle Steele
- Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. -Nat King Cole
- And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling. -Shanti
- In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky. – Mungo Jerry
- One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. -Henry David Thoreau
- I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. -Susan Branch
- The summer night is like a perfection of thought. -Wallace Stevens
- 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
- Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. -Al Bernstein
- Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. -C. Day Lewis
- We know summer is the height of being alive. -Gary Shteyngart
- I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. -Robert Bridges
- 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
- I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies. -Toni Morrison
- Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
- Green was the silence, wet was the light, and the month of June trembled like a butterfly. -Pablo Neruda
- Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen
- Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. -Yoko Ono
- One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. -Jeannette Walls
- He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. -John Burroughs
- Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly. -Van Morrison
- 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
- 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
- Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. -K.D. Lang
- Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, and having fun. -Brian Wilson
- And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Summer bachelors like summer breezes are never as cool as they pretend to be. -Nora Ephron
- Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
- Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams. -Hosea Ballou
- Summertime and the livin’ are easy. ~ Porgy and Bess
- We know summer is the height of being alive. -Gary Shteyngart
- There are three things I like about the summertime: Drop tops, long hot nights, and summer love. -Beyoncé
- It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. -Anna Godbersen
- Summertime is always the best of what might be. -Charles Bowden
- Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in the sunshine. -Oprah Winfrey
- Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me. -Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? -John Steinbeck
- I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. -L.M. Montgomery
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. -Aristotle
- Summer brings sunshine, warmth, and flowering. -Lailah Gifty Akita
- A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. -Robert Orben
- In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other… everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time – this collection of weeks when anything was possible. -Sarah Dessen
- Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August. – Jenny Han
- In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams
- Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops. -Kellie Elmore
- It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. -Anna Godbersen
- 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
- Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape… -Harper Lee
- In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
- Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about. -John Mayer
- Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. -William Shakespeare
- Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. -Al Bernstein
- The summer breeze makes me feel fine. -Seals & Crofts
- A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about. -John Mayer
- 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
- I know I am but summer is to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen
- No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. -John Donne
- It’s always summer somewhere. -Lilly Pulitzer
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows. -Helen Keller
- If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue. -Katie Lee
Summer is a time of long, sunny days and outdoor fun. Whether it’s the inspiration to put away your winter clothes and head out into nature or the nostalgia of childhood memories like summer camp, these 100 quotes capture the special delight that comes with this season.
From loving summer in all its beauty to finding solace and privacy amid its warmth, each quote reminds us how unique and precious this season can be.
This summer, take in the sunlight and discover how sweet life can be when we enjoy every moment of it.