130 August Quotes and Sayings

The exciting vacations, beach parties, tan lines, and refreshing drinks are just some of the reasons why people love the month of August. August is such an amazing time to reminisce wonderful memories and get the much-needed relaxation we all deserve. Hurry and find out if these August Quotes also speak to you and share them with your family and friends!

August Quotes

1. People were messy. They were defined not only by what they’d done but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back, time only moved forward, but people could change. For worse. And for better. It wasn’t easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain. – Victoria Schwab

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

3. We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth. It has no day. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. “I didn’t stop fighting,” he said, the words so low he worried Kate wouldn’t hear them, but she did. “I just got tired of losing. It’s easier this way. ” “Of course, it’s easier,” said Kate.” That doesn’t mean it’s right.” – Victoria Schwab

5. The whole thing’s illusion, [Jacob], and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what people want from us. It’s what they expect. – Sara Gruen

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

7. The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it. – Rick Bragg

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

9. August was nearly over, the month of apples and falling stars, the last carefree month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear, the first sign of advancing autumn. – Victor Nekrasov

10. 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

August Quotes

11. Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone’s noticing. 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

12. Taught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to winter’s approach. We forget the fogs, the slush, the sore throats and the price of coal, we think only of long evenings by lamplight, of the books which we are really going to read this time, of the bright shop windows and the keen edge of the early frosts. – Denis Mackail

13. 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

14. It’s hard to reconcile this August with the other one. And to be honest I don’t try very hard. I’ve seen flashes of this August before. This brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit, but I know what he’s capable of, and I won’t forget it. The others can believe what they like, but I don’t believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration and yet I can see how they might be fooled. – Sara Gruen

15. Your acts are your monuments. – R. J. Palacios

16. 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

17. He waited for me to stand and join him, then he threaded our fingers together. My best friend, the boy I’d loved my entire life, was holding my hand. – Kelly Siskind

18. When you stand on the banks of Penn Swamp Pond in August, those injuries can save your life and keep you picking till the bush is bare. – Charles Rafferty

19. Terrified he was about to say the three most terrifying words in the English language, I opened my ridiculous mouth, and blurted, “I stole your underwear.” – Gwen Hamilton

20. Quinnipeague in August was a lush green place where inchworms dangled from trees whose leaves were so full that the eaten parts were barely missed. Mornings meant ‘thick o’ fog’ that caught on rooftops and dripped, blurring weathered gray shingles while barely muting the deep pink of rosa rugosa or the hydrangea’s blue. Wood smoke filled the air on rainy days, pine sap on sunny ones, and wafting through it all was the briny smell of the sea. – Barbara Delinsky

21. 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

August Quotes

22. I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything. – Lev Grossman

23. 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

24. Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven, the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine. – Bruno Schulz

25. It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, it’s home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are back in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy. – Max Heindel

26. Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can’t begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so. – Andrew Young

27. That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. – Garth Brooks

28. 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

29. In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself, only its aftermath. – Siri Hustvedt

30. Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world’s record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder, his blunder was a new world, the New World is his monument. – Justin Winsor

31. 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. – Donald G. Mitchell

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

33. The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. – Ralph Adams Cram

34. I don’t have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don’t have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas. – Emmitt Smith

35. And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. – Robert Grosseteste

36. 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

37. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. – Maud Hart Lovelace

38. 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

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

August Quotes

40. When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, though they could be a new person. – Aimee Friedman

41. The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of through 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

42. Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing. – Truman Capote

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

44. Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. – Pablo Neruda

45. In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible. – Sarah Dessen

46. 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

47. If it could only be like this always, always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper. – Evelyn Waugh

48. The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments. – China Miéville

49. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. – L.M. Montgomery

50. At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant, all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats. – Alison Croggon

51. The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted, the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze, June had arrived. – J.K. Rowling

52. The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past. – Erik Tomblin

53. Democracy requires compromise even when you’re 100% right. – Barack Obama

54. There are decades when nothing happens. There are weeks when decades happen. – Vladimir Lenin

55. Never believe that your best days are behind you. You may just need to reach farther ahead. – Tay Zonday

56. My grandmother taught me, never cut what you can untie.  Leave people better than you found them. And always try to exit better than you entered someone’s life. – Sophie A. Nelson

57. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.  Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

58. Fear is not a wall but an emotion. And like all emotions, it can be overcome. – Gwen Goldsby Grant

59. Life is problems. Living is solving problems. – Raymond E. Feist

60. Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin. – K. Kiser

61. Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz

62. Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success. – Manuela George-Izunwa

63. As a job seeker, remember this. You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way. – Robert Brault

64. After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved. – Proverb

65. There’s no such thing as ready, there’s only willing. – Rachel Cohn

66. People value people who value people. – Tony Curl

67. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams

August Quotes

68. Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing. – Orrin Woodward

69. Slow yellow river flowing, willows that gesture in tepid August airs, and four children playing at greatness, as, doubtless, great men themselves must play. – Sinclair Lewis

70. Smell brings to mind, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. – Diane Ackerman

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

72. The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze greets them, one by one, now the oak. Now the great sycamore, now the elm. – Hamlin Garland

73. I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones. The black rain, the white hills, when once. I loved only my happiness and you. – Derek Walcott

74. All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies, because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. – Alighieri Dante

75. The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds, this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event. – Iannis Xenakis

76. What wondrous life is this I lead. Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of the vine. Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine and curious peach. Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. – Andrew Marvell

77. My life is like the summer rose, that opens to the morning sky. But ere the shades of evening close is scattered on the ground, to die. – Richard Henry Wilde

78. And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. The only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain. The skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water. – Dana Gioia

79. Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. – Barry Cornwall

80. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? – William Shakespeare

August Quotes

81. The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies. You can try and read it but you’re gonna get it wrong, all wrong. The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you’re gonna get it wrong. And it’s gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom. – Henry Rollins

82. I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.  I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. – Walt Whitman

83. Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God.  If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. – Samuel Rutherford

84. Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do. ‘Cause there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues. – Eddie Cochran

85. The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.

86. 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

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

88. August is like the Sunday of summer.

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

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

91. Just the smell of summer can make me fall in love.

92. Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? – Dodie Smith

93. Summer is a state of mind, and all at once, summer collapsed into fall. – Oscar Wilde

94. It’s always summer somewhere. – Lilly Pulitzer

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

96. Summer should get a speeding ticket.

97. Fairest of the months! Ripe summer’s queen. The hey-day of the year. With robes that gleam with sunny sheen. Sweet August doth appear. – R. Combe Miller

98. 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

99. In the parching August wind, cornfields bow the head. Sheltered in round valley depths, on low hills outspread. – Christina G. Rossetti

100. The English winter, ending in July to recommence in August. – Lord George Byron

101. By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer. – Helen Hunt Jackson

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

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

104. There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? – Joe Wheel

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105. Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don’t remember summer even saying goodbye. – David Mitchell

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

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

108. Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there. Francis Thompson

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

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

111. It will not always be summer, build barns. – Hesiod

112. While we’re young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer’s done we might not be so young and beautiful.

113. Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. – Hal Borland

114. I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun. – Danielle Steel

115. 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

116. Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. – John Donne

117. September tries its best to have us forget summer. – Bern Williams

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

119. Rejoice as summer should, chase away sorrows by living. – Melissa Marr

120. Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves. – Debasish Mridha

121. O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper. – J.P. Donleavy

122. I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer, its dust and lowering skies. – Toni Morrison

123. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. – Anna Godbersen

124. I wonder what it would like to live in a world where it was always June. – L.M. Montgomery

125. I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket. – Kelle Elmore

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

127. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

128. One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. – Jeanette Walls

129. It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine. It’s summertime. – Kenny Chesney

130. Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly. – Van Morrison

 

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