75 Summer Quotes to Enjoy the Warm Months

Summer’s here, it’s time to dig out your favorite dresses or those embarrassing shorts!

It’s been a whirlwind of events these past two years, so we’ve compiled this list of 75 summer quotes to help get you in the mood for a good summer and make the most of the warmer months.

We’ve all been blindsided and affected in some way by the negative circumstances from the past couple of years, spending time thinking about summer and getting excited about the future is a welcome boost that anyone could do with right about now.

However, before we get to the quotes let’s talk about summer itself. 

Why Read Summer Quotes

What is summer? Summer is the warmest season, starting after spring and before Autumn. The days are longer, there’s more sunlight and people generally prefer to be outdoors (or indoors with a nice fan).

Summer signifies life beginning to blossom to its fullest potential, as more sun allows for more growth. The summer season is a great time to slow down and start to think or appreciate more of your own life, it’s a time to start thinking about your future rather than dwelling on the past.

These past couple of years, in particular, have been rough across the board, lockdowns, uncertainty, and being unable to plan for the future have taken their toll. The summer of 2024 is the time to shake off the shackles of the past few years and start to embrace a more positive future.

If you take a look at most people's favorite memories, you’ll often find summer is involved. Family summer holidays, sizzling barbeques, refreshing salads, or even some nice cocktails. Summer is an anchor point for many happy memories, and every year it’s an opportunity to make even more.

We’ve been compiling this list of summer quotes to help get you in the mood to make the most out of these warmer months because they certainly won't last forever.

Sometimes it takes a conscious effort to change your mindset from worrying about the future to enjoying what you have now, and that’s where these quotes can help you.

Sit back, relax, grab a refreshing drink and let’s enjoy these summer quotes.

75 Summer Quotes to Enjoy the Warm Months in 2024

1. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.” – Rumi
2. “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.” – Bryan Procter
3. “Just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
5. “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves,” – Debasish Mridha
6. “Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
7. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”  – Maud Hart Lovelace
8. “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

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

9. “Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” – Melissa Marr
10. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
11. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, enjoying the scenery, having fun with family and friends.” – Brian Wilson
12. “Look, if I could run across the beach into my own arms, I would.” – Jackie Burkhart
13. “O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper,” – J.P. Donleavy
14. “Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.” – Bob Marley
15. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams
16. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
17. “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” – Nina Arianda

18. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han
19. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” – L.M. Montgomery
20. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” – Kellie Elmore
21. “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” – Toni Morrison
22. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison
23. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
24. “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

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

25. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” – Anna Godbersen
26. “Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” – Zooey Deschanel
27. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
28. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” – sportscaster, Al Bernstein
29. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “I just wanna lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.“ – Kevin Malone
31. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish Proverb
32. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … It’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney

33. “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by,” – Jeanette Walls
34. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess
35. “Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about.” – John Mayer
36. “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
37. “In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
38. “Summer's lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
39. “My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” – Terri Guillemets
40. “There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party—let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendor, speak for itself.” – Pippa Middleton
41. “If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” – Katie Lee
42. “Oh sun! Fervid Sun! You welcome me with summer. Drench me in your rays,” – Richelle E. Goodrich

Oh sun! Fervid Sun! You welcome me with summer. Drench me in your rays,” – Richelle E. Goodrich

43. “Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.” – Andrea Willis
44. “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” – Helen Keller
45. “The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.” – Katie Lee
46. “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
47. “Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” – Oprah
48. “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” – Bern Williams
49.  “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes
50. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore
51. “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
52. “The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.” – E.B. White

53. “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
54. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck
55. “Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.” – Archibald Macleish
56. “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” – Paul Pitchford
57. “But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” – The Beatles
58. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph
59. “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” – Yoko Ono
60. “I'm ready for barbecues and picnics; reading books in my hammock; lemon-berry iced tea and a rocking chair on the front porch, watching the sun set with friends; stargazing while eating s'mores in the backyard. Oh, summer…bring it on!” – Oprah

I'm ready for barbecues and picnics; reading books in my hammock; lemon-berry iced tea and a rocking chair on the front porch, watching the sun set with friends; stargazing while eating s'mores in the backyard. Oh, summer…bring it on!” – Oprah

61. “Summer sun, something's begun, but, oh, oh, the summer nights.” – John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
62. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
63. “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
64. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” – Pablo Neruda
65. “It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do” – Walter Winchell
66. “There’s nothing better than a beautiful day at the beach filled with sun, surf, and uh, diligent note-taking.” – Pam Beesly
67. “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” – Walt Whitman

68. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter
69. “…I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere,” – Isabelle Eberhardt
70. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker
71. “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.” – Unknown
72. “Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.” – Anthony Bourdain
73. “To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie–true poems flee.” – Emily Dickinson
74. “Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots, and gillyflowers,” – Sara Coleridge
75. “At the beach, time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted.” – T.S. Eliot

Final Thoughts on Summer Quotes

We hope these summer quotes help you enjoy yourself in these warmer months, you only get one every year so why not make this the best summer yet?

In the meantime, check out these 25 daily affirmations for happiness and positive thinking to help get you in the mood to put on your sunglasses, get out the sun cream, and maybe have a nice barbecue or two. Thanks for reading – we hope you have an excellent summer!

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