50 Inspirational Positive Summer Quotes to Brighten Your Days

"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

"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, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date."

- William Shakespeare

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."

- John Cheever

"When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."

- Charles Bowden

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"Summer's the same. We're the ones who are changing."

- The Summer I Turned Pretty

"I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."

- Mario Fernandez

"Summertime, and the living is easy."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."

- Emily Dickinson

"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different."

- John Steinbeck

"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

"Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly."

- Van Morrison

"Summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high."

- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

"How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door."

- Emily Dickinson

"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

"Swim through the serene summer sky."

- Virgil

"I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment."

- Lucy Stone

"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."

- Natalie Babbitt

"Summer means happy times and good sunshine."

- Brian Wilson

"In summer, the song sings itself."

- William Carlos Williams

"Ah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends."

- Darrell Hammond

"In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky."

- Mungo Jerry

"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

"Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. 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

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"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

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August."

- Jenny Han

"One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"'Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about."

- John Mayer

"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

"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

"Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon."

- C. Day Lewis

"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."

- Jenny Han

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine...it's summertime!"

- Kenny Chesney

"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

"Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"Some of the best memories are made in flip flops."

- Kellie Elmore

"Paradise is a state of mind / Where mother nature nurtures and man is kind / We need a change now wouldn’t it be nice / If we could bring back summer."

- The Beach Boys

"Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit."

- Ada Louise Huxtable

"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

"Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet."

- Bob Marley

"Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?"

- Eugene Kennedy

"Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living."

- Melissa Marr

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

- Wallace Stevens

"It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine…it’s summertime!"

- Kenny Chesney

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."

- Hal Borland

"I wanna soak up the sun."

- Sheryl Crow

"It's like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime."

- Bon Jovi

"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies."

- Toni Morrison

"I felt like summer had taken me over."

- Junot Diaz

"But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun."

- The Beatles

"Summer breeze makes me feel fine."

- Seals & Crofts

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe."

- Evelyn Waugh

"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."

- Celia Thaxter

"Summer arrives with the morning sun. Beach time breezes in with endless fun."

- Debasish Mridha

"Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns."

- Marty Rubin

"Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided."

- Kate Chopin

"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

"Summer is delicately made. While it is, it is ceasing."

- Genevieve Taggard

"Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom / July is dressed up and playing her tune."

- Seals and Crofts

"In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen."

- Steven Millhauser

"If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe..."

- Evelyn Waugh

"And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling."

- Shanti

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."

- Anton Chekhov

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

- Sam Keen

"Like a first slow dance and a first long kiss / There ain't nothing baby better then this / It's like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine / It feels something like summertime."

- Bon Jovi

"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind / And you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling / Laugh, oh how we would laugh at anything / And so pretend a never-ending summer fling"

- k.d. lang

"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."

- Al Bernstein

"Summer’s here and the time is right / For dancing in the street"

- Martha and the Vandellas

"Well, summer slipped us underneath her tongue / Our days and nights are perfumed with obsession"

- Lorde

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"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 rumor of sadness and change."

- E.B. White

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night."

- Hal Borland

"We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives."

- Gary Zukav

"Celebrate summer—sun-drenched days and starlit nights."

- Gooseberry Patch

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."

- Maud Hart Lovelace

"And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling."

- Shanti

"Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun."

- Brian Wilson

"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer."

- Anna Godbersen

"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling."

- k.d. lang

"To escape and sit quietly on the beach — that's my idea of paradise."

- Emilia Wickstead

"Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, / As summer clouds flash forth electric fire."

- Samuel Rogers

"There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer."

- Gertrude Jekyll

"Dancing days are here again, As the summer evenings grow."

- Led Zeppelin

"She was sippin' on Southern and singing Marshall Tucker. We were fallin' in love in the sweet heart of summer."

- Florida Georgia Line

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone."

- Nicholas Sparks

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June."

- L.M. Montgomery

"Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true."

- Roxane Gay

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."

- Hosea Ballou

"When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself."

- Tom Robbins

"If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue."

- Katie Lee

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

- Langston Hughes

"I can’t wait to fall in love with you / You can’t wait to fall in love with me / This just can’t be summer love, you’ll see."

- Justin Timberlake

"Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks."

- John Goodman

"Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne."

- Bryan Procter

"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."

- Jim Rohn

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

- Patricia Briggs

"Yellow is my favorite summer color - it makes me feel like a sunflower."

- Bria Vinaite

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

"I live for summer."

- Sandra Boynton

"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

"Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth."

- Yukio Mishima

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes I wonder what I’m gonna do / But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues."

- Eddie Cochran

"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."

- Nora Ephron

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

- John Donne

"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

"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."

- Aldo Leopold

"My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast."

- Karamo Brown

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

- Russell Baker

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

- Heraclitus

"Pack your bags; fill your days; summer is for adventures in a million ways."

- Unknown

"Summer: Hair gets lighter. Water gets warmer. Nights get longer. Life gets better."

- Unknown

"A life without love is like a year without summer."

- Unknown

"School’s out. Scream and shout!"

- Unknown

"Being in love is like a rollercoaster and a stroll on the beach rolled into one."

- Unknown

"Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me."

- Unknown

"The tans will fade but the memories will last forever."

"I'm sorry for the things I said when it was winter."

- Unknown

"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer."

"If you're not barefoot, then you're overdressed."