50 Summer Quotes That Capture the Joy of Beach Season
Updated: Sep. 20, 2023Get ready to soak up that sun with these classic summer quotes
Summer quotes for those lazy hazy crazy days
Ah, summer. Warm evenings, lazy mornings, lazy afternoons, lazy evenings, lazy weekends … wait, what were we talking about? Oh yes: Barbecues, vacations, ice cream, swimming, beautiful nature and other summer traditions. Summer is many people’s favorite season of the year, and these summer quotes show they have good reason to think so. Whether you’re relaxing with a great beach read or shopping for one of the best bathing suits, summer is a time when everything loosens up a little bit. Summer starts on June 21 this year, and you’ll definitely want to share some summer quotes to spread cheer—and maybe even sprinkle in a few summer memes.
“I live for summer.”—Sandra Boynton, cartoonist. We’re also living for these hilarious summer cartoons.
“To escape and sit quietly on the beach—that’s my idea of paradise.”—Emilia Wickstead, fashion designer. Get laughing this season with the funniest quotes of all time.
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”—Henry David Thoreau, writer
“I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.”—Elizabeth Berkley, actor. Speaking of beaches, check out the best beach Instagram captions that’ll make waves in your feed.
“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, writer
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace its audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.”—Cecelia Ahern, writer
“My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.”—Anonymous. You can get the feeling of this summer quote by thinking about your next vacation.
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”—Henry James, writer. If you’re looking to spread more positive words, read up on the most uplifting quotes that will keep you going.
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”—Kellie Elmore, writer. You know what else wraps around you like a warm blanket (apart from summer quotes)? Happiness!
“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, writer
“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, poet
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”—Benjamin Alire Sáenz, poet. Summer quotes are all very well, but what about summer horoscopes?
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”—John Steinbeck, writer
Speaking of the cold season, check out these cozy winter quotes.
“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, author
“She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”—Katie Daisy, artist. After reading these summer quotes, feel nostalgic for other seasons with these spring quotes and fall quotes.
