80 Summer Quotes To Get You In The Sunshine Spirit

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

If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.
Unknown

I live for summer.
Sandra Boynton

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 must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Henry David Thoreau

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

When all else fails, take a vacation.
Betty Williams

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

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz,

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

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
Elizabeth Berkley

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.
Anonymous.

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

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

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
George R.R. Martin

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

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

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
George R.R. Martin, 

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair
susan polis schutz

Summertime, and the living is easy.
Ella Fitzgerald

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

Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo Neruda

There’s no place like home. Except for the beach.
Anonymous

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

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

Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then followed that beautiful season…summer…Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay, as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
Ray Bradbury

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

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle

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

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
Roman Payne

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

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

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

Have you summered properly?
The Beachcomber restaurant

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

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E. Lockhart

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

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
Dodie Smith

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

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

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
J. R. Lowell

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August
Jenny Han

It’s summer and time for wandering.
Kelli Elmore

Summertime is always the best of what might be.
Charles Bowden

Come with me,’ Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.
Lisa Schroeder

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz,

Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.
John Mayer

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.
Mark Twain

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

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape. Harper Lee

Every summer has its own story, but mine is a novel.
Anonymous

A life without love is like a year without summer.
Swedish proverb

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter

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

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

Tan lines will fade but memories of summer love will last forever.
Unknown

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. Day Lewis

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens

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

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

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 passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Yoko Ono

Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.
Kellie Elmore

Hey! it’s summer! Be free and Happy and danceful and uninhebited and now-y
Unknown

Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
Zooey Deschanel

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

She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.
Katie Daisy

In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops, and school.
Margaret Atwood