Happy Summer Quotes:

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Summer, Night, Perfection, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

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

topic: Love, Marriage, Summer, Summer Inspirational, Summer Love

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

- Kenny Chesney

source: Song: Summertime, Album: The Road And The Radio, 2005

topic: Summer, Wine, Kissing, Summer Is Coming, Summer Love

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK

topic: Summer, Fruit, Always Alone, Summer Is Coming, Summer Sun

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Summer, Childhood, Enough, Summer Is Coming, End Of Summer

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Summer, Winter, Littles, Summer And Winter, Summer Inspirational

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: Summer, Winter, Giving, Invincible Summer, Cold Weather

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

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Summer, Butterfly, June, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

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

- Henry James

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Time, Solstice, Late Summer

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

- Anton Chekhov

source: 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

topic: Happiness, Happy, Summer, Summer And Winter, Summer Garden

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

source: "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Solstice, Invincibility

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

- Maud Hart Lovelace

source: Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”, p.11, Harper Collins

topic: Summer, Sunshine, June, Summer Is Coming, Summer Is Over

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

- Russell Baker

topic: Summer, Nature, Suffering, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

A life without love is like a year without spring.

- Octavian Paler

topic: Spring, Love Is, Years, Spring Summer, Late Summer

Tears are summer showers to the soul.

- Alfred Austin

source: "Savonarola: A Tragedy".

topic: Summer, Soul, Tears, Tears And Crying, Happy Summer

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Conviction, Familiar, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

- Violette Leduc

topic: Summer, Fire, Solitude, Summer Garden, Happy Summer

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

- William Browne

source: William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

topic: Summer, Spring, Winter, Spring Poems, Spring Season

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl, I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl, It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Summer, Girl, Children, Summer Breeze, Summer Is Coming

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

topic: Summer, Sunshine, Tree, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

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

- Brian Wilson

topic: Summer, Beach, Fun, Happy Times, Going To The Beach

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Rain, Sound Of Rain, Sunbeams

I'd be happy with this summer if it's all we ever had.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.203, Scholastic UK

topic: Summer, Shiver, Ifs, Summer Breeze, Summer Is Coming

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Summer, Dream, Children, Grown Women, Remembering Her

Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.

- Celia Thaxter

topic: Summer, Dream, Sleep, Happy Summer

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

- Mary Wigman

source: Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

topic: Summer, Dance, Stars, Overcast, Happy Summer