Use the fun, funny and beautiful summer quotes for Instagram, X and all your favorite socials. The perfect images and captions to either kick off your summer break or celebrate the end of summer.
For more nature inspiration, also take a look at these spring quotes, these quotes about sunsets and these quotes on butterflies.
Summer Quotes
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” – Dodie Smith
“We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I’m standin’ there on a balcony in summer air.” – Taylor Swift
“I’ve always played my best golf in the summer.” – Keegan Bradley
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” – Unknown
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“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer’s breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer – perhaps more.” – Jasper Fforde
“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
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…” – Susan polis Schutz
“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
“You’re like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.” – Rod Stewart
“There’s something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.” – Ed Westwick
“I love summer in Glasgow, it’s my favourite day of the year.” – Fuad Alakbarov
“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
“Oh sun! Fervid Sun! You welcome me with summer. Drench me in your rays.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” – Toni Morrison
“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
“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.” – Deb Caletti
“Aaah, 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.” – Darell Hammond
“Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.” – Marcia Gay Harden
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph
“I’m obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don’t feel totally guilty eating it. It’s not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it’s a great way to just refresh.” – Caroline Sunshine
“There’s nothing more beautiful than watching trees getting dressed up for Spring and Summer.” – Charmaine J Forde
“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.” – Sofi Benitez
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.” – Zooey Deschanel
“Just living is not enough … one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
“I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun—my children are horrified!” – Danielle Steel
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” – William Shakespeare
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck
“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.” – Bob Marley
“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” – Mungo Jerry
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeannette Walls
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han
“There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.” – Nora Roberts
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” – L.M. Montgomery
“In summer, we grow younger and stay young forever.” – Debasish Mridha
“Summer loves, like summer breezes, are never as hot or long as they pretend to be.” – Jeffrey Fry
“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
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
“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 could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” – Susan Branch
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” – C. Day Lewis
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” – Lewis Carroll
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace
“Summer arrives with the morning sun. Beach time breezes in with endless fun.” – Debasish Mridha
“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
“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
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney
“Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” – Melissa Marr
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves,” – Debasish Mridha
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” – K.D. Lang
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” – Diane Ackerman
“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” – Evelyn Waugh
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish Proverb
“I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore
“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 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
“Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.” – Marty Rubin
“Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.” – Roman Payne
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” – Hosea Ballou
“Summer was our best season everything good to eat, a thousand colors in a parched landscape.” – Harper Lee
“The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.” – Katie Lee
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“By then, you’d gone on with your life and I didn’t want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn’t ever want to lose that.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” – Kellie Elmore
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.” – Paul Monette
“I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen of meadow flowers and butterflies in summers that have been.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
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