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.