Top 40 Summer Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

2. “Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

3. “We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.”

— Gary Zukav

Also featured in: Winter Quotes

4. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Rain Quotes

6. “I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.”

— Robert Frost

Also featured in: Lonely Quotes

7. “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

8. “For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— John Steinbeck

Also featured in: Flower Quotes

10. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”

— John Burroughs

Also featured in: Winter Quotes

11. “The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Winter Quotes

12. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.”

— John Steinbeck

13. “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

— Thomas Paine

Also featured in: Country Quotes

14. “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.”

— Mark Twain

15. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Peace Quotes

16. “In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Winter Quotes

17. “You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Also featured in: Rain Quotes

18. “If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?”

— Steven Wright

19. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”

— Morris L. West

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Christian Quotes

20. “The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Rain Quotes

21. “Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

— John Muir

22. “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

Also featured in: Winter Quotes

23. “When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.”

— Helen Schucman

24. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

— Auguste Rodin

Also featured in: Time Quotes

25. “The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

26. “But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one’s going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”

— Robert Frost

27. “O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

28. “My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A’s. I decided to get straight A’s. I didn’t want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A’s once, its easier.”

— Bill Gates

29. “I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I’ve got a war in my mind So, I just ride.”

— Lana Del Rey

Also featured in: Quotes About War, Quotes About Night

30. “You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.”

— Zhuangzi

31. “In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”

— Lewis Carroll

32. “If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.”

— Neil Gaiman

33. “By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

34. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”

— Anton Chekhov

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Winter Quotes

35. “Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

36. “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

37. “Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.”

— John Keats

38. “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

— E.E. Cummings

39. “Because one day I’ll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade.”

— Gerard Way

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

— John Donne