165 Summer Quotes + 5 Poems about Summertime - The Digital Reader (2024)

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If you’re asking yourself, "Where is summer?" or "When will it really be summer again?" and can’t wait for the most beautiful time of the year, then you’ve come to the right place. Read our sayings about summer and get into the summer mood.

Thirty degrees in the shade, shorts and summer dresses, ice cream and swimming, vacation and sea, long days on the beach and longer nights in nature. All benefits of the most beautiful time of the year, summer.

Our collection of sayings reflects exactly this summer feeling. – Sometimes clever, sometimes short, sometimes soulful. Even the annoying and negative sides of summer have found a place in our article and are taken up with a funny undertone.

So put on your swimwear, grab an ice cream and browse through our collection of sayings.

Short Quotes about Summer

In this chapter you will find extra short summer sayings. Let’s hope that this year’s summer will not be as short as the sayings in this chapter.

The next list holds beautiful and short sayings for you.

1. Somewhere is always summer.
   (Unknown)
2. Summer is a state of mind.
   (Unknown)
3. Summer warms our hearts.
   (Unknown)
4. Summer is the best time of the year.
   (Unknown)
5. Summer and sun are the best medicine.
   (Unknown)
6. If not in summer, when?
   (Leonie Lau)
7. In summer our souls become warmer.
   (Leonie Lau)
8. In a grateful heart there is eternal summer.
   (Celia Thaxter, US poetess, 1835-1894)

Here you will find more short quotes for different occasions.

Beautiful Summer Sayings

Are you looking for sayings that capture the beautiful feeling of summer and the positive qualities of this season? In the first list you will find just that, twelve beautiful sayings.

1. Summer turns man into a dreamer.
   (Paul Keller, German writer, 1873-1932)
2. In summer, the days are a little longer, the nights a little shorter, our skin a little darker, but most importantly: our smile a little wider.
   (Leonie Lau)
3. The sun was shining, I saw the leaves on the trees sprouting as if in fast motion, and there stirred in me the familiar certainty that life begins anew with summer.
   (F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940)
4. Summer means packing your beach bag and leaving your worries at home.
   (Leonie Lau)
5. When the weather turns to sunshine, and school ends for the vacations, when every child is very happy, it’s finally summertime.
   (Unknown)
6. I almost wish we were butterflies and lived only three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more joy than fifty ordinary years could ever contain.
   (John Keats, British poet, 1795-1821)
7. Summer: the time of swimming, sand on your feet, cool drinks, long nights, laughter and a heart full of memories.
   (Leonie Lau)
8. Summer nights always smell a little bit of happiness.
   (Unknown)
9. Oh, die Sommernacht hat ein Lächeln aus Licht, und sie sitzt auf einem Saphirthron.
   (Barry Cornwall, English poet, 1787-1874)
10. Dear summer, fill my head with memories and my heart with sunshine.
    (Leonie Lau)
11. That, too, is art, is God’s gift, to carry so much light into one’s heart from a few sunny days that, when summer has long since blown away, the glow still remains.
    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
12. Joy and smiles are the summer of life.
    (Jean Paul, German writer, 1763-1825)

Funny and Short Quotes about Summer

Are you a humorous person all year round? You bridge the winter by your jokes comfort you over the cold days? Then we have many funny summer sayings about the summer for you, which are guaranteed to make you and those around you laugh.

1. Summer is the season of miserable sledding.
   (from the Eskimos)
2. Summer is the time when it is too hot to do, what it was too cold to do in winter.
   (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)
3. Tonight I sleep with the window open – 23,456 mosquitoes will love this.
   (Unknown)
4. In summer, the fat people stand out, in winter the thin ones.
   (Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, 1892-1940)
5. There are people who are sad when the summer is over. And there are people with attic apartments.
   (Unknown)
6. My checklist for the summer. Vacation booked: check. New bikini: check. Sunglasses: check. Appearance: Flabby.
   (Unknown)
7. Ice cream has relatively few vitamins, so you need to eat more of it.
   (Unknown)
8. Summer is when you only need the comforter to keep your legs from sticking together.
   (Unknown)
9. My plan for this summer: I’m going to dive and become a mermaid.
   (Unknown)
10. Summer is when nothing gets past your ass because everything sticks to it.
    (Unknown)
11. In case you were wondering why the weather is so good right now: it’s last year’s summer. It came with the Deutsche Bahn.
    (Unknown)
12. The summer is here. Always apply suntan oil judiciously, that way the rain pearls off better.
    (Unknown)

Here you will find more funny quotes.

Quotes about the End of Summer

All things must come to an eventual end and it is no different with summer.

It’s always hard to see summer go, but as tan lines fade and the leaves begin to fall, we hold on to the sweet memories of summer. Long days and warm nights will be missed, but there is nothing like the feeling of the summer sun meeting autumn leaves.

As August approaches and we prepare for the cooler and often wet season, here are a few quotes that will make saying goodbye to the final days of summer that much easier.

1. The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.
   (Unknown)
2. August is like the Sunday of summer.
   (Unknown)
3. Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
   (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
4. One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.
   (Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, 1817-1862)
5. When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away.
   (Sarah Helen Whitman, U.S. American poet, and essayist, 1803-1878)
6. Summer is a state of mind.
   (Unknown)
7. There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
   (Celia Thaxter, US poetess, 1835-1894)
8. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer`s best of weather And autumn`s best of cheer.
   (Helen Hunt Jackson, American poet and writer, 1830-1885)
9. When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away.
   (Sarah Helen Whitman, U.S. American poet, and essayist, 1803-1878)
10. Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
    (Francis Thompson, English poet, 1859-1907)

Here you will find quotes about the beauty of the winter.

Summer Captions for Instagram

Are you getting ready for summer? Can’t wait to do all the fun things at the beach, mountain, home? Wherever the pull of summer takes you, there is nothing better than to announce your joy and excitement than with Instagram Summer Captions.

Show off your sun-drenched locks with "Beach hair, don’t care." If you and your pals are going for a friends road trip, spread the good vibes with a matching captions.

These instagram captions are exactly what you need to encapsulate all that the warm weather and sunshine have to offer. All you have to do is take tons of pictures to make it one you’ll never forget.

1. Suns out, hamburger buns out.
2. Sweet sunny disposition.
3. My happy season.
4. Life’s better in flip flops.
5. What time is it? Summertime.
6. Stay salty.
7. Catching some rays, some waves and some favs.
8. Girls just wanna have sun.
9. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream and that’s pretty much the same thing.
10. Nothing but sandy skin and summer smiles.
11. Keepin' it reel.
12. Single and ready to fla-mingle.

Funny Quotes about Summer

Below we have collected some funny summer sayings. They are good for example to write them in your WhatsApp status or to make your friends aware of the summer with a funny message.

1. This year the summer came again 6 kilos too early…
   (Unknown)
2. I’m completely undersummered again.
   (Unknown)
3. Vacation I could also do professionally.
   (Unknown)
4. Have the sun stapled down or something.
   (Unknown)
5. Better to swim in the sea than to swim in work.
   (Unknown)
6. The outdoor pool is the place where you can also get fresh mushrooms in the summer.
   (Unknown)
7. I just went for a run of 2 km. I thought the ice cream truck would never stop.
   (Unknown)
8. Are you still sweating or are you already sticking?
   (Unknown)
9. Summer: If you’re not barefoot, you’re overdressed.
   (Unknown)
10. If you go skinny dipping, you don’t need a bikini figure.
    (Unknown)
11. Summer in the attic: the coffee stays warm.
    (Unknown)
12. With the summer weather, a bikini figure wouldn’t have been worth it at all.
    (Unknown)

Happy Summer Quotes for the Letter Board

Regardless if you’re taking some days off in an exotic place, or if you’re staying in to enjoy your holidays, it’s always good to change the atmosphere a little and get your home into that summer vibe.

Having some fun, useful or inspirational quotes to get you into summer and ready to enjoy the hot season of the year to the fullest, makes it indispensable to have something within eyesight wherever you might be.

To help you with that, there are a few quotes for your message board below for you to pick and choose.

1. Here comes the sun
2. Tropical state of mind
3. Block his number and enjoy the summer
4. I’m a better person when I’m tan
5. Grillin’ and chillin’
6. Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat.
7. Go where the Wi-fi is weak and the rum is strong
8. Catching a Wave
9. Sea You at the Beach
10. Beach Bound
11. Rowing Gently Down the Stream
12. You Can Call Me Captain

“Hot Girl Summer” Quotes

As the season turns to summer, a phrase is circulating among us. It’s ‘Hot Girl Summer’ – an attitude and a lifestyle where girls take charge of their own destinies, seize every opportunity, and make themselves truly unique.

The mantra has taken off as a part of this summer’s culture, and underneath it lies some really inspiring quotes about living life to its fullest. Below you’ll find a few matching quotes about hot girl summer that will propel you to seize today for everything that it is worth.

1. Have the best Hot Girl Summer imaginable.
2. Hot girl summer, mood all year.
3. Making moves and staying fly, hot girl summer is my vibe.
4. Hot girl summer means living life on your own terms.
5. Feeling my hottest, this is my hot girl summer.
6. Don’t be basic, be a hot girl this summer.
7. Unapologetically me, hot girl summer.
8. Powered by sunshine.
9. Sun kissed.
10. Sunshine state of mind.
11. I was made for sunny days.
12. Walkin’ on sunshine.
13. Endless sunshine.

Quotes about Summer Solstice

Summer solstice is a special time of the year and the next one will be soon upon us again. It is time to prepare ourselves for a new beginning, the longest day of the year and the first day of summer.

Below are some of the best summer solstice quotes to get you into the mood and ready for summer. Let these quotes help you celebrate this amazing time of the year of long days and short nights to accompany through summer.

1. 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, American novelist, 1896-1940)
2. I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
   (Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author, 1874-1942)
3. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
   (Sir John Lubbock, British anthropologist, 1834-1913)
4. Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
   (Henry James, American-British author, 1834-1916)
5. Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
   (Barry Cornwall, English poet, 1787-1874)
6. Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
   (Francis Thompson, English poet, 1859-1907)
7. Not only is it Sum­mer Sol­stice, there is a Full Moon. May love surround you like sun­shine on a sunny day.
   (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
8. In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
   (Leopold I., King of Belgium, 1790-1865)
9. The days were longer then for time, like money, is measured by our needs, when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
   (George Eliot, English writer, 1819-1880)
10. Thy eternal summer shall not fade.
    (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
11. All green and fair the summer lies. Just budded from the bud of spring, with tender blue of wistful skies, and winds which softly sing.
    (Susan Coolidge, American author, 1835-1905)

Quotes to Wish a Happy First Day of Summer

Summer has officially started again on the first day of summer and no better way to get into jive and mood than by kicking it off with a few happy first day of summer wishes.

To ease you into it, you’ll find a few quotes below that you all but ensure that you remember this and every First Day of Summer to come.

1. Sending you my warm wishes on the First Day Of Summer. I hope you enjoy the summer fullest and have good times.
   (Unknown)
2. Happy First Day Of Summer to you. I wish you experience a joyful day filled with sunshine and brightness.
   (Unknown)
3. Want to wish you a very happy First Day Of Summer. I hope you have a great time and a wonderful vacation this summer.
   (Unknown)
4. The First Day Of Summer is the soundest notification that reminds us to enjoy the blessings of the sun. Happy First Day Of Summer.
   (Unknown)
5. On this bright, shiny First Day Of Summer, I hope you get ready to explore the places and have a great vacation.
6. (Unknown)
7. The First Day Of Summer is a magnificent opportunity to relax, plan for a holiday and enjoy the blissful sun.
8. (Unknown)
9. Summer is so blissful with full of fun. And the First Day Of Summer makes us remind of this fantastic season. Happy Summer.
   (Unknown)
10. Summers are always vibrant, shimmery, and energetic. Happy First Day of Summer.
    (Unknown)
11. It’s the First Day Of Summer. I hope this season may bring you opportunities to visit beaches. Happy First Day Of Summer.
    (Unknown)
12. May this season of summer bring along new joys for you. Happy First Day of Summer to you.
    (Unknown)
13. Dear, I know, you are craving beaches. It’s the First Day Of Summer, let’s go for some fun. Happy First Day Of Summer.
    (Unknown)
14. I feel thrilled to know you have decided to explore this summer with me. Let’s have fun. Happy First Day Of Summer.
    (Unknown)

Quotes about Summer for Positive Vibes

If you are not already in a good mood with the summer temperatures, the many summer hours and the beautiful summer nights, you can be encouraged by the good mood sayings in this chapter.

1. Smile, because every day is a step closer to summer.
   (Unknown)
2. Summer: hair gets lighter, skin gets darker, drinks get colder, music gets louder, nights get longer, life gets better.
   (Unknown)
3. In summer, the nights are longer. So more time to fool around.
   (Unknown)
4. Time for sand between the feet, sun on your skin and salt on your tongue.
   (Unknown)
5. Favorite moment: seeing the beach, walking by the ocean and feeling the water on my feet.
   (Unknown)

Here you will find more positive quotes.

Smart Sayings about Summertime

The wisdoms in the following are mostly a bit older. They give us advice for life or for dealing with the seasons.

1. Who does not collect in the summer, he will be scanty in winter.
   (from Germany)
2. Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
   (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
3. In Hornung (February) snow and ice, makes the summer long and hot.
   (old farmer’s rule)
4. Summer is only a green-painted winter with us, even the sun must wear a jacket of flannel, if it does not want to catch cold.
   (Heinrich Heine, German poet, 1797-1856)
5. Who is not rich now, as the summer goes, will always wait and never own himself.
   (Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian storyteller and lyricist,1875-1926)
6. If the oak tree greens before the ash tree, the summer will bring great washing. If the ash tree shoots before the oak, the summer brings great bleaching.
   (old farmer’s rule)
7. The most dangerous summers are also the most fruitful.
   (from Germany)
8. In summer you are more human, in winter more bourgeois.
   (Unknown)
9. If we are to feast in the summer, we must also have thunder.
   (from Germany)
10. If July makes us hot, winter brings much ice.
    (old farmer’s rule)

Sayings about Heat at Work

In this chapter you will find funny sayings that will make the heat at work a little more bearable. If your colleagues share your misery, you can cheer them up with one of the sayings and make them laugh.

1. "And how do you protect yourself from the sun?" – "I go to work."
   (Unknown)
2. Those who do not want to work in the heat must suffer hunger in the cold.
   (from Germany)
3. Not every Monday is bad. For example, in the summer when I have vacation, there will be a Monday in between.
   (Unknown)
4. If it’s as warm in hell as it is here, then I’ll have to make an effort to be a good person. – But wait, I’m already at work. Hell can’t be any worse anyway.
   (Unknown)
5. Forget team building. What really welds a team together is 36 degrees without air conditioning.
   (Unknown)
6. Great, tomorrow there will be wind to add to the heat. Switch from top heat to circulating air, just like in the oven.
   (Unknown)
7. If you stick your fingers directly into the fan, the pain distracts wonderfully from the feeling of heat.
   (Unknown)
8. Wow, this heat. I already have 17 windows open on the desktop, but it’s still too hot….
   (Unknown)

Inspirational Quotes about the Sun and the Beach

The best thing about summer? For many, sun, beach, sea and vacation.

Are you also one of those who long for the sunny season all year round? Then we have the right sayings for you. Just reading them will make you feel like you’re lying on the beach in the sun.

1. Sun on the skin, the sound of the sea in the ear, feelings of happiness in the stomach.
   (Unknown)
2. One ray of sunshine can awaken more than a thousand nights can stifle.
   (Carl Ludwig Schleich, German writer, 1859-1922)
3. If life is a journey, the beach is my destination.
   (Unknown)
4. The beach called and asked where we were staying.
   (Unknown)
5. Wind in your hair, sun on your face, sea in your eyes. That’s what happiness feels like.
   (Unknown)
6. The wonderful lamp of heaven, the sun.
   (Robert Herrick, English lyric poet, 1591-1674)
7. The sun brings warmth and light, but shadow, it does not bring.
   (from Germany)
8. Sun is the best medicine.
   (Unknown)
9. I’d like a double helping of sea with extra beach right now, please.
   (Unknown)
10. Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882)
11. A ray of sunshine is enough to illuminate much darkness.
    (Francis of Assisi, catholic saint, 1182-1226)
12. Sei wie die Sonne. Steh morgens auf und strahle. Egal welches Wetter gestern war.
    (Unknown)
13. Summer: time for sun and beach.
    (Unknown)
14. Lieber mit dem Fahrrad zum Strand als mit dem Mercedes zur Arbeit.
    (Unknown)
15. Jeder Tag sollte ein Strandtag sein.
    (Unknown)

Here you will find quotes about the ocean.

Sayings about Missing Summer

Summer is over, it is getting colder and slowly every day a little darker. Now is the time to miss the summer vibe. If you miss summer, here are sayings with which you can express your sorrow.

1. The summer that passes is like a friend who bids us farewell.
   (Victor Hugo, French author, 1802-1885)
2. The tan may fade, but the memories of summer will remain forever.
   (Unknown)
3. Ok, Christmas is over. Summer can come.
   (Unknown)
4. Do you also feel a longing for the ocean?
   (Unknown)
5. In the summer we create memories that we will never forget.
   (Unknown)
6. Summer, 5 p.m: Closing time. What do we do? Swim, eat ice cream, go swimming, BBQ? – Winter, 5 p.m: *Dark. I’m going to lie down.
   (Unknown)
7. Winter, thank you enough. See you next year.
   (Unknown)
8. My only occupation all winter: miss summer.
   (Unknown)

Cool Summertime Quotes

Our article also has cool summer sayings ready for you. You can send cool quotes about summertime to your friends, use as Instagram caption or just get into summer mood yourself.

1. Life is better in flip flops.
   (Unknown)
2. I prefer my footprints in sand, not snow.
   (Unknown)
3. In February snow and ice makes the summer hot.
   (Unknown)
4. I have sent Summer a friend request. Hope he accepts it.
   (Unknown)
5. Make it a summer you’ll always remember, with people you’ll never forget.
   (Unknown)

Poems about Summer

Even great poets and thinkers seem to have taken a liking to the warm season, because there are many poems about summer. We have selected five of the most beautiful poems for you. Let their thoughts and rhymes put you in the summer mood.

1)

Good advice

On a summer morning
Take the walking stick so nice,
Your troubles will fall off
Like mist from you with nos scoff.

2)

Urban summer night

Down below, all evening turns darker,
And it’s already night, upon way faster.
Clings around the lanterns.
But higher, suddenly less precise,
The empty light fire wall of a back house
Of a back house in the showers will suffice,
Of a night pushed up,
Which has full moon and nothing but the moon.
And then above a vastness glide
Onward, which is holy and spared,
And the windows on the whole side
Become white and uninhabited and blared.

3)

In Summer

To summer pools
Now everyone travels
And lives splendidly.
The poor doctor,
At home he sits
Patientless.
Of winter scenes,
Of terribly beautiful ones,
Dreams his mind,
When, thanks be to the gods,
In doggy weather
His wheat blossoms.

(Wilhelm Busch, German poet, 1832-1908)

4)

Summer morning

O summer morning, how beautiful you are,
So beautiful in the valley and on the hills.
When the morning light shines from the east
And golden paints the hem of the clouds,

5)

The summer thread

There flies, as we walk in the field,
A summer thread over land,
A light and bright web of fairies,
And knots a ribbon from me to her.
I take it for a favorable sign,
A sign such as love needs.
O hopes of the hopeful,
Of fragrance woven, of air breathed.

(Ludwig Uhland, German poet, 1787-1862)

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