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August is here with plenty of hot and lazy days in the sun.

But it’s also a transitional period when summer soon is coming to a close and work and schools are starting again.

In today’s post I want to simply share 80 of the most positive, funny and beautiful short August quotes.

I hope these quick but powerful sayings will help you to make the most of these warm August days and the last of your summer.

Short August Quotes for The Last Days of Summer

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

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

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, 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

“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.”
– Rolf van der Wind

“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.”
– Victoria Erickson

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

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

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”
– William Faulkner

“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 has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. 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

“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

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

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze.”
– Rasmenia Massoud

“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail

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

“The sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
– Stephen King

Positive and Short August Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Month

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov

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

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

“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”
– Gladys Taber

“The weather is great, and the sun is always out in August.”
– Anna Scott

“August is for changes and strength.”
– Luke Hamlet

“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.”
– Meka Boyle

“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.”
– Helen M. Winslow

“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation.”
– Max Heindel

“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

“Every year I go to Denver, usually between June and August. I hire a car and head up to the Rocky Mountain National Park, about a three-hour drive. It’s my idea of heaven on earth.”
– Gavin Esler

“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“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

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

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

“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer, and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”
– Ik Marvel

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear 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

“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

“People don’t notice if it’s August or December when they are happy.”
– Anthony Mill

“Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

Funny and Short August Quotes for Your Instagram or Letter Board

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

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

“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.”
– Crestless Wave

“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”
– Pat Conroy

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
– Earl Wilson

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.”
– Jane Smiley

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong.”
– Alice Hoffman

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

“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
– Joseph Epstein

“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

“The August sun, God’s blood blister.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“Sometimes August isn’t recognized until December.”
– Meka Boyle

“It’s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.”
– Monica Hesse

“To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say, calm down! It’s August.”
– Unknown

“August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.”
– Mak Cov

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

“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.”
– Lord Byron

“One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.”
– George Carlin

Short and Beautiful August Quotes on the Magic of End of Summer

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”
– Tove Jansson

“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
– Lauren Oliver

“The August cloud melts into streams of rain.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.”
– Ray Bradbury

“August is the month when wars start. It’s when the water dries up, and the spirit begins to wither.”
– Al Aronowitz

“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.”
– Thomas Tusser

“The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there, a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.”
– Robert Lowell

“In the mute August afternoon, they trembled to some undertune of music in the silver air.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“When August days are hot and dry, I won’t sit by and sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure.”
– Colette

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

“How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.”
– Thom Gunn

“August evenings are especially stricken with melancholy – as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart.”
– Letters of Summer Past

“Smell brings to mind a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.”
– Diane Ackerman

“For the rest of the vacation, there was hardly a day when they did not go up to it. Preferably in the long, smoky, delicious August evenings when the white moths sailed over the tansy plantation.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

“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

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight like a spy through the ripening countryside.”
– Sarah Orne Jewett

“Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.”
– Sue Hubbell

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”
– E.B. White

Want more inspiration for this part of the summer? Then have a look at these inspirational August quotes, the end of summer quotes in this post and also these short summer quotes.

The golden hues and warmth of summer is starting to fade.

The first hints of autumn can barely be sensed somewhere at the horizon.

The end of summer is here.

A bittersweet time of fondly reflecting back on the season that’s been. On the memories – both sad and joyful under the bright sun – that you will keep with you for a long time.

To help you to make the most of this special time of the year I’d like to share 82 of the most powerful, beautiful and funny end of summer quotes.

I hope you’ll find something helpful and positive here.

Beautiful End of Summer Quotes to Celebrate What Has Been

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

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

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

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

“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

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures and fear 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

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

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

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

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland

“The rains of summer’s end were very like tears, falling warm and gradually chilling where they fell.”
– Lael Wertenbaker

“The summer ends and we wonder where we are.”
– Robert Peter Williams

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer

“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”
– Paul Dini

“Summer night – even the stars are whispering to each other.”
– Kobayashi Issa

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

“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy”
– Emily Dickinson

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summers best of weather and the autumns best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

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

“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived. The slant of the sun looks different and something is in the air – a coolness, a hint of frosty mornings to follow.”
– Ann Rinaldi

Inspirational End of Summer Quotes to Embrace Change

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.”
– Unknown

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

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams

“When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.”
– Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James

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

“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer

“Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.”
– Elyne Mitchell

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

“We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.”
– Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
– Robert Greene

“For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.”
– George R. R. Martin

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”
– E.B. White

“The end has come, as come, it must, To all things; in these sweet June days, The teacher and the scholar trust, Their parting feet to separate ways.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”
– Tove Jansson

“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha

Funny End of Summer Quotes

“Thanks for the tan lines, mosquito bites and memories, summer.”
– Unknown

“I don’t remember summer even saying goodbye.”
– David Mitchell

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

“Summer should get a speeding ticket.”
– Unknown

“Goodbye, good times and tan lines.”
– Unknown

“People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.”
– Ray Davies

“August is like the Sunday of summer.”
– Unknown

“I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.”
– Unknown

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

“Alas, summer sun can’t last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.”
– Sarah MacLean

“It’s the end of the summer. It’s the end of it all. Those days are gone, it’s over now, we’re moving on.”
– Theory Of a Deadman

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies.”
– Rasmenia Massoud

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

“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.”
– Unknown

“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown

“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.”
– Darnell Lamont Walker

“Summer, you’ve been a dream. Until we meet again!”
– Unknown

“Goodbye, summer. Hello, pumpkin spice!”
– Unknown

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen

Short End of Summer Quotes for Your Letter Board or Instagram

“Summer memories last forever.”
– Unknown

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves.”
– Humbert Wolfe

“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Summer always ends with good memories.”
– Unknown

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

“August slipped away like a bottle of wine.”
– Taylor Swift

“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“Summer’s end is around the corner.”
– Erica Bauermeister

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

“Autumn was on the way and I awaited it with impatience.”
– Unknown

“It’s never crowded along the extra mile.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Summer lovin’, had me a blast. Summer Lovin’, happened so fast.”
– Grease

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

“When all else fails, take a vacation.”
– Betty Williams

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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin

“August is the bridge between summer and autumn.”
– Unknown

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
– Lao Tzu

“Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“On the shore of nature’s magic, I dreamed summer knew no end.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

Want more inspiration for the fall? Then have a look at these uplifting fall quotes, the positive autumn quotes here and also this one with short inspirational quotes.

August has arrived.

With days that are still warm and sunny but also with a bittersweet end of summer in sight and autumn waiting around the corner.

So in today’s post I want to share 101 of the most beautiful, funny and inspirational August quotes.

To help you make the most of this last part of summer and as you’re going back to work or school.

I hope you’ll find something motivational, uplifting and positive here.

Inspirational August Quotes for a Positive and Joyful Month

“The arrival of August means that summer is drawing to a close, and that’s exactly why it should be embraced.”
– Amanda McArthur

“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.”
– Victoria Erickson

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”
– Tove Jansson

“May your month of August be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.”
– Unknown

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

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.”
– Jenny Han

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear 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

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight like a spy through the ripening countryside, and with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.”
– Sarah Orne Jewett

“Good things are going to happen. Welcome, August!”
– Unknown

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

“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

“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation… for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.”
– Max Heindel

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

“August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear – the first sign of advancing autumn.”
– Viktor Nakrasov

“Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure.”
– Colette

“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.”
– Meka Boyle

“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
– Lauren Oliver

“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”
– Ik Marvel

“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

“Welcome, August! A bounty of beautiful beginnings and neverending blessings.”
– Unknown

“The west coast of Corsica on a boat in August is probably as beautiful as it gets.”
– Antoine Arnault

“May-August wind blows you in the right direction.”
– De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Happy people are the best, and August is the month of the happiest people.”
– Unknown

“In August, everything looks possible.”
– Erin Mcgown

Beautiful August Quotes on This Time of the Summer (Great for Instagram)

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov

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

“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”
– Gladys Taber

“The August cloud melts into streams of rain.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“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

“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

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

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
– Natalie Babbitt

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

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

“It was August, and the fields were high with corn. In the orchard the last of the peaches clung to their branches and the apples were showing their first pinkish blush.”
– Melanie Gideon

“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.”
– Helen M. Winslow

“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

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

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”
– William Faulkner

“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time, ‘Cause it was never mine.”
– Taylor Swift

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

“The August sun is pouring on the land. His scorching rays and vegetation stands, beseeching to the skies for showers again, and being answered like the prayers of men.”
– Edward Blair

“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

“I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me. Although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.”
– Siri Hustvedt

“In the mute August afternoon, they trembled to some undertune of music in the silver air.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail

“August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.”
– Henry Rollins

“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

“Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there’s a star called Aldebaran? 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

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.”
– Jane Smiley

Funny August Quotes for Stress Relief

“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

“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year’s resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.”
– Crestless Wave

“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.”
– Lord Byron

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

“To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say, calm down! It’s August.”
– Unknown

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.”
– Alice Hoffman

“I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.”
– Bridget Willard

“Don’t blame the holidays. You were already overweight in August.”
– Unknown

“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”
– Pat Conroy

“August is a wicked month.”
– Edna O’Brien

“One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.”
– George Carlin

“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
– Joseph Epstein

“August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.”
– Ichiro Suzuki

“August is the Sunday of summer.”
– Unknown

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett

Motivational August Quotes for Work

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

“August is for changes and strength.”
– Luke Hamlet

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“You can if you think you can.”
– George Reeves

“Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer.”
– Jennifer Lewis

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”
– Maya Angelou

“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Happy August!”
– Unknown

“Don’t let your August be four weeks of feeling sad that fall is right around the corner.”
– Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

“Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best by looking into the eyes of the sun.”
– Unknown

“I don’t know about you, but August is still an important chapter in summer’s novel.”
– Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anthony Mill

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”
– John Heywood

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

Short Hello and Welcome August Quotes for Your Letter Board

“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer

“Good things are going to happen. Summer is still here.”
– Anonymous

“Goodbye July, hello August. I think you will be wonderful.”
– Unknown

“Welcome, August! You are my bittersweet end but also the beginning of something new.”
– Unknown

“Swim through the serene summer sky.”
– Virgil

“August vibes are upbeat but a little, little sad and uncertain too.”
– Unknown

“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.”
– Thomas Tusser

“The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks

“One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.”
– Ray Bradbury

“August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.”
– Mak Cov

“Prayer is an August avowal of ignorance.”
– Victor Hugo

“Sometimes August isn’t recognized until December.”
– Meka Boyle

“In summer time to simply be.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“The sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
– Stephen King

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

“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”
– Emily Dickinson

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

Want more summer inspiration and motivation? Then check out the short summer quotes in this post, these inspirational summer quotes and also this one with plenty of funny summer quotes.