100+ Inspirational Quotes About Summer to Brighten Your Days

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"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

"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

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

- Lucy Stone

"Summer means happy times and good sunshine."

- Brian Wilson

"Summertime and the livin’ is easy."

- Porgy and Bess

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

- Henry James

"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

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

- Melissa Marr

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Kenny Chesney

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

- Bob Marley

"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

"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

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Emily Dickinson

"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

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

- Martha and the Vandellas

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

- Led Zeppelin

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

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

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"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

"The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer."

- George R.R. Martin

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

- Russell Baker

"The end-of-summer winds make people restless."

- Sebastian Faulks

"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

"Swim through the serene summer sky."

- Virgil

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

- Bon Jovi

"I wanna soak up the sun."

- Sheryl Crow

"September tries its best to have us forget summer."

- Bern Williams

"It’s summer and time for wandering…"

- Kellie Elmore

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

- Samuel Rogers

"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

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

- Lorde

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

- Gertrude Jekyll

"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

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

- Kate Chopin

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

- Eugene Kennedy

"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

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

- Genevieve Taggard

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

- John Cheever

"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

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability"

- Sam Keen

"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance."

- Bern Williams

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

- Eddie Cochran

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

- Henry James

"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Toni Morrison

"Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air."

- Andrea Willis

"My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

- Aldo Leopold

"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 a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do"

- Walter Winchell

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

- Maud Hart Lovelace

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

- Mungo Jerry

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

- k.d. lang

"Summer breeze makes me feel fine."

- Seals & Crofts

"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

"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

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

- John Steinbeck

"Summertime, and the living is easy."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Kenny Chesney

"Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world."

- John Tyler Bonner

"Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow."

- Gary Zukav

"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?"

- Dodie Smith

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

- Patricia Briggs

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

- The Beatles

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

- Celia Thaxter

"In summer, the song sings itself."

- William Carlos Williams

"Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves."

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Debasish Mridha

"I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket."

- Kellie Elmore

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

- Anna Godbersen

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

- John Mayer

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

- Charles Bowden

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

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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

- Shanti

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

- John Steinbeck

"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

"To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall."

- Ann Patchett

"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

"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."

- Sarah Dessen

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

- Gooseberry Patch

"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

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Kellie Elmore

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- Wallace Stevens

"I felt like summer had taken me over."

- Junot Diaz

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

- Marty Rubin

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

- Al Bernstein

"Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes …."

- Ada Louise

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

- Yukio Mishima

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

- Bryan Procter

"One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by."

- Jeannette Walls

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

- Katie Lee

"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this."

- Susan Branch

"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."

- Raymond Duncan

"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

"A good swimming pool could do that—make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon."

- Emma Straub

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

- Sam Keen

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

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

- Patricia Briggs

"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

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

- John Donne

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

- Nora Ephron

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"School’s out. Scream and shout!"

- Unknown

"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer."

"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

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

- Unknown

"There is no ‘we’ in summer. Only ‘u’ and ‘me’."

"Salt in the air, sand in my hair."

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

- Unknown

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

"Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!"