These August quotes discuss the pleasures of summer but also have universal applications. The summer comes to a close in August. Seasonal change is frequently used as a metaphor for significant life transitions. The four seasons are likened to the four stages of life: winter represents old age, spring represents infancy, and summer represents adolescence.

The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar is August. The warmth and joy of summer are unique features. It’s the ideal time to spend time with your closest friends and family at an amusement park, travel to the beach, and enjoy your favorite ice cream. Here is a collection of several inspiring, sweltering August quotes and sayings.

Best August Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water. – Mary Oliver.

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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.

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.

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

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

Everything is good, everything magical happens between June and August. – Jenny Han.

Thoughtful August Quotes

August rain is the best of the summer gone, and the new fall is not yet born. The odd uneven time. -Sylvia Plath.

August breeze—perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul. – Meeta Ahluwalia.

August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. – Henry Rollins.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Positive Quote for August

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.

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.

Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer… ―Denis Mackail.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. ―China Miéville.

Summertime is always the best of what might be. ―Charles Bowden.

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

Summer has filled her veins with light, and her heart is washed with noon. ―C. Day-Lewis.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. ―William Shakespeare.

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ―Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe. ―Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

August Quotes Funny

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. – Sam Keen

Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be. – William E. Henley

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

If it could only be like this always–always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. – Evelyn Waugh

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. ― Patricia Briggs

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Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. – William Shakespeare

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

The end-of-summer winds make people restless. – Sebastian Faulks

It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. – Walter Winchell

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

Short August Quotes

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. – Joseph Wood Krutch.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. – Wallace Stevens.

It was August, and the fields were high with corn. ―Melanie Gideon.

But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time… ―Taylor Swift, ‘august’.

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

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Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August. ―Denise Levertov.

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ―Celia Thaxter.

Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. ―Bryan Waller Procter.

I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. ―Susan Branch.

Some people are so much sunshine in every square inch. ―Walt Whitman.

August Quotes and Poems

The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. – Sue Monk Kidd.

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

August is ripening grain in the fields… Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dust the meadow purple. – Jean Hersey.

That August time it was a delight, To watch the red moons wane to white. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me. – Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

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.

August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. ―Tove Jansson.

Bye August Quotes

If you’re a sketch, bye. Sneaky, bye. Caught lying, bye. Running with groupie hoes, bye. Hiding the fact you’re taken, bye.

I know that I can take no more, it ain’t no lie. I wanna see you out that door. Baby, bye, bye, bye… Nsync

Relationships are great when it is we instead of me being used… But when you continually hear the word, I. I. I … you know it’s time to say… Bye! Bye! George Kincses

Bye Bye Boyfriend, it’s time that I’d be on my way. Bye, Bye Boyfriend I used to like the way you said. Fefe Dobson

Come on and tell me why you wanna say bye, bye Oh no, I just can’t understand. How come you want a change of plans? Gregory Isaacs

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How blind can you be, don’t you see? That the gambler lost all he does not have… Bye-bye, beautiful Nightwish

I want kind warm-hearted people in my life. If you’re mean and irrelevant, bye-bye. I hope you’re happy, but not with me.

Always it’s some other guy, you’re just a broken lullaby, bye-bye love. The Cars

Like when we kissin – bye bye bye. You got a girl that’ll – ride ride ride. Ashanti

I played bass guitar in high school in college and then I fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. Colin Hanks

Last Day of August Quotes

Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light. – Paul Monette

Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be. – William E. Henley

If it could only be like this always–always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. – Evelyn Waugh

I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. – Susan Branch

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. – George R.R. Martin

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Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. – William Shakespeare

One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. – Henry David Thoreau

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away. — Sarah Helen Whitman

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. — George R.R. Martin

It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me. ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz