59 Best August Quotes And Sayings – Ever!

August Quotes

Quotes For August And A Beautiful Summer

The best August quotes provide a great way to welcome August as well as being a gentle reminder for what a great month it truly is.

If you are already sitting out in the hot weather with an ice cream, or you find yourself longing for August days and some summer heat, now is the perfect time to immerse yourself in some inspirational quotes for August!

11 Relaxing August Quotes

Bring in a happy August for yourself and those around you in the best possible way, with these relaxing August quotes and sayings.

“August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water.”

– Mary Oliver

“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.

– Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”

– Sue Monk Kidd

August Quotes
August Quotes

“…August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”

– Lauren Oliver

“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.”

– Melanie Gideon

“Summer has filled her veins with light, and her heart is washed with noon.”

– C. Day-Lewis

August Quotes
August Quotes

“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.” 

– Henry David Thoreau

“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

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”

– Wallace Stevens

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

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“In the long dusks of summer, we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”

– Steven Millhauser

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”

– Denise Levertov

9 Motivational August Quotes

These motivational quotes can be a great way to inspire and motivate anyone during the hot days of Summer.

So whatever it is you want to achieve, these quotes will help you get there.

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

– Brian Wilson

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”

– Jenny Han

August Quotes
August Quotes

“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”

– Susan Branch

“One day you discover you are alive. Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight! You laugh, you dance around, you shout. But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” 

– Ray Bradbury

“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy, and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.”

– Sylvia Plath

“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease.”

– John Burroughs

“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”

– Wilma Rudolph

August Quotes
August Quotes

“Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”

– Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.”

– Henry Rollins

11 Thought Provoking August Quotes

Is there anything more thought provoking than reading beautiful quotes throughout the warm days of summer?

It is as romantic as it is poetic, and these famous summer quotes will inspire thought like no other.

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.”

– Kent Nerburn

“Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.”

– Rick Bass

August Quotes
August Quotes

“That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school… The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”

– Garth Brooks

“Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.”

– Bryan Waller Procter

“Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.”

– Roman Payne

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”

– Celia Thaxter

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

– John Steinbeck

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer… like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”

– Natalie Babbitt

“The quiet August noon has come;

A slumberous silence fills the sky;

The winds are still, the trees are dumb,

In glassy sleep the waters lie.”

– William Cullen Bryant

“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack.”

– China Miéville

August Quotes
August Quotes

“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

11 Beautiful August Quotes

There cannot be a single thing that boosts a mood more than beautiful August quotes, and no one says it better than William Shakespeare…

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

– William Shakespeare

“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”

– Henry Rollins

“August is ripening grain in the fields… Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.”

– Jean Hersey

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”

– Edna St. Vincent Millay

“August breeze—perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.”

– Meeta Ahluwalia

“August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”

– Tove Jansson

August Quotes
August Quotes

“Some people are so much sunshine in every square inch.”

 – Walt Whitman

“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time…”

– Taylor Swift

“Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you?… And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?”

– Elizabeth Enright

“That August time it was delight, to watch the red moons wane to white.”

– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

 – Charles Bowden

“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”

– Joseph Wood Krutch

10 August Quotes For The End Of Summer

The last days of summer can often be the most captivating and romantic.

Enjoy these 10 end of summer quotes as you witness summer’s last stand in all of its beauty.

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”

– Rasmenia Massoud

“One evening in August, you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden, it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”

– Tove Jansson

August Quotes
August Quotes

“In August, an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.”

– Kelsey Brickl

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”

– Sara Baume

“August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children.”

– Victor Nekrasov

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

– Sylvia Plath

“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”

– Henry Rollins

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”

– Sarah Dessen

“Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer…”

– Denis Mackail

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures and fears it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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