The 33 Best Quotes to Savor Summer As It Ends
Cure your end-of-summertime sadness with these sayings.
As the warm breeze turns into a crisp chill, the beach days dwindle, and the dawn of fall rolls around— saying goodbye to a well-spent summer may be difficult. However, this year’s summer may have brought you cherished memories, wonderful travels, a chance to relax and, of course, a great tan. It’s best to celebrate and look back on those moments with gratitude and look forward to the remainder of the year. Below are 33 uplifting quotes that will soothe your summertime sadness and push you into autumn with high spirits.
"To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall." – Ann Patchett
"September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures." – Lea Malot
"Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light." – Paul Monette
"It is the glistening autumnal side of summer. I feel a cool vein in the breeze, which braces my thought, and I pass with pleasure over sheltered and sunny portions of the sand where the summer's heat is undiminished, and I realize what a friend I am losing." – Henry David Thoreau
"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
“The tans will fade but the memories will last forever."
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
– George R.R. Martin
“August is like the Sunday of summer.”
“With all these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summers best of weather and the autumns best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“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
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown
“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
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Just the smell of summer can make me fall in love.”
“Summer is a state of mind."
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
Maggie Maloney is the Site Director of Oprah Daily. She previously worked at Town & Country, Elle DECOR, and Something Navy.
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