- Unless you don't like the summer, that is.
These summer quotes are everything we need before the season starts. What’re your favorite summer quotes?
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” —
Robert Orben
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” — Sam Keen
“Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.” — Haruki Murakami
“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.” — Thomas Carlyle
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” — William Shakespeare. Do you agree with this as one of the best summer quotes?
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” — Debasish Mridha
“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
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.” — Polly Horvath
“Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” — Melissa Marr. Do you like this as one of the summer quotes?
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.” — Deb Caletti
“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
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” — Jeannette Walls
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” — Kellie Elmore
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.” — Helen Keller. This is one of the best of the amazing summer quotes.
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” — John Steinbeck
“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
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those
summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.” — L.M. Montgomery
“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” — Evelyn Waugh
So what did you think about these summer quotes? Let me know your favorites in the comments!