100 Summer Quotes, Sayings, and Instagram Captions (2024)

Summertime is a magical season that provides us with months of sunshine, warm days, and good vibes. To honor the allure of this special season, we’ve compiled 100 quotes to give perspective and appreciation to the beauty and adventure that comes with every summer.

Whether it’s a delightful memory or an inspiring outlook for the future; these quotes cover everything from optimism to nostalgia about the carefree summer days we always look forward to.

Escape into these words of wisdom and enjoy our favorite time of year in all its glory!

1. When all else fails, take a vacation. -Betty Williams
2. When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, and no trouble is too difficult to overcome. -Wilma Rudolph
3. I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. -Robert Bridges
4. Summertime is always the best of what might be. -Charles Bowden
5. it’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime! -Kenny Chesney
6. Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves. -Debasish Mridha
7. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -Russell Baker
8. Long summer days can calm the angriest of beasts. -Bert McCoy
9. To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie – true poems flee. -Emily Dickinson
10. I just wanna lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted. –Kevin Malone
11. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. – Brian Wilson
12. Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. -Bryan Procter
13. Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. -Sam Cooke
14. If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… -Evelyn Waugh
15. 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
16. 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
17. Tears are the summer showers to the soul. -Alfred Austin
18. Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet. -Justin Timberlake
19. 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
20. Look, if I could run across the beach into my own arms, I would. –Jackie Burkhart
21. I wanna soak up the sun. -Sheryl Crow
22. In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different. -John Steinbeck
23. You can feel it in the streets. On a day like this, the heat I feel like summer. -Childish Gambino
24. Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
25. Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. -George R.R. Martin
26. 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
27. Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. -Bryan Proctor
28. It’s summer and time for wandering… -Kellie Elmore
29. All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer… one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends, and delightful doing, come as near perfection as anything can come in this world. -L.M. Mongomery
30. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, enjoying the scenery, and having fun with family and friends. –Brian Wilson
31. It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime. -Bon Jovi
32. 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
33. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. -Langston Hughes
34. Do what we can, summer will have its flies. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… -Susan Polis Schutz
36. Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier. -Zooey Deschanel
37. Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
38. I like summer, I like warmer weather and long days. -Danielle Steele
39. Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. -Nat King Cole
40. And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling. -Shanti
41. In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky. – Mungo Jerry
42. One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. -Henry David Thoreau
43. I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. -Susan Branch
44. The summer night is like a perfection of thought. -Wallace Stevens
45. 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
46. Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. -Al Bernstein
47. Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. -C. Day Lewis
48. We know summer is the height of being alive. -Gary Shteyngart
49. I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. -Robert Bridges
50. 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
51. I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies. -Toni Morrison
52. Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
53. Green was the silence, wet was the light, and the month of June trembled like a butterfly. -Pablo Neruda
54. Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen
55. Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. -Yoko Ono
56. One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. -Jeannette Walls
57. He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. -John Burroughs
58. Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly. -Van Morrison
59. 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
60. A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken. -James Dent
61. Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. -K.D. Lang
62. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, and having fun. -Brian Wilson
63. And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
64. Summer bachelors like summer breezes are never as cool as they pretend to be. -Nora Ephron
65. Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
66. Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams. -Hosea Ballou
68. Summertime and the livin’ are easy. ~ Porgy and Bess
69. We know summer is the height of being alive. -Gary Shteyngart
70. There are three things I like about the summertime: Drop tops, long hot nights, and summer love. -Beyoncé
71. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. -Anna Godbersen
72. Summertime is always the best of what might be. -Charles Bowden
73. Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in the sunshine. -Oprah Winfrey
74. Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me. -Benjamin Alire Sáenz
75. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? -John Steinbeck
76. I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. -L.M. Montgomery
77. 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
78. Summer brings sunshine, warmth, and flowering. -Lailah Gifty Akita
79. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. -Robert Orben
80. In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other… everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time – this collection of weeks when anything was possible. -Sarah Dessen
81. Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August. – Jenny Han
82. In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams
83. Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops. -Kellie Elmore
84. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. -Anna Godbersen
85. 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
86. 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
87. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
88. Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about. -John Mayer
89. Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. -William Shakespeare
90. Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. -Al Bernstein
91. The summer breeze makes me feel fine. -Seals & Crofts
92. A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about. -John Mayer
93. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. –Audrey Hepburn
94. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. -Maud Hart Lovelace
95. I know I am but summer is to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
96. Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen
97. No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. -John Donne
98. It’s always summer somewhere. -Lilly Pulitzer
99. Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows. -Helen Keller
100. If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue. -Katie Lee

Summer is a time of long, sunny days and outdoor fun. Whether it’s the inspiration to put away your winter clothes and head out into nature or the nostalgia of childhood memories like summer camp, these 100 quotes capture the special delight that comes with this season.

From loving summer in all its beauty to finding solace and privacy amid its warmth, each quote reminds us how unique and precious this season can be.

This summer, take in the sunlight and discover how sweet life can be when we enjoy every moment of it.