Profoundly inspirational August quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
Famous 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
The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. Sue Monk Kidd
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. Armenia Massoud
If it could only be like this always always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. Evelyn Waugh
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
August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. Henry Rollins
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
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Jenny Han
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. Joseph Wood Krutch
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Anna Godberson
August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water. Mary Oliver
If it could only be like this always always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. Evelyn Waugh
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
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter Patricia Briggs
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’s lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun. Brian Wilson
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker
Don’t forget to also read our collection of summer quotes.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace Stevens
It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. Walter Winchell
This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand. Sara Baume
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Jenny Han
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen
The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. Sue Monk Kidd
Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be. William E. Henley
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
Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August. Denise Levertov
August was nearly over the month of apples and falling stars, the last carefree month for the school children. Victor Nekrasov
August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. Armenia Massoud
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
That August time it was delight. To watch the red moons wane to white. Algernon Charles Swinburne
That August time it was delight To watch the red moons wane to white. Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘August’.
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. Joseph Wood Krutch
When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Wilma Rudolph
Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. Deb Caletti
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, The Great Gatsby
Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer. Jennifer Lewis
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent. Meka Boyle
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath
Don’t let your August be four weeks of feeling sad that fall is right around the corner. Jasmine Vaughn Hall
August breeze perched on the flame tree, a red vented Bulbul. Meeta Ahluwalia
Write about winter in the summer. Annie Dillard
August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. Henry Rollins
In summer, the song sings itself. William Carlos Williams
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
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Celia Thaxter
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 Rollin
It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation. Max Heindel
August still stretched before us long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. Lauren Oliver
August is the border between summer and autumn. It is the most beautiful month I know. Tove Jansson
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
Every summer my mother would say, ‘Get that job and hold on to it until August 30. Chris Matthews
If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end. Sarah Dessen
In August most of Europe goes on holiday. Tony Visconti
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
Summer afternoon summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James
Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Roman Payne
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
August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Tove Jansson
One day you discover you are alive. Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight! You laugh, you dance around, you shout. 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 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 of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water. Mary Oliver
It was August, and the fields were high with corn. Melanie Gideon
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
But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time. Taylor Swift, ‘august’.
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
For additional reading, be sure to also check out these June quotes.
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy, and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. Sylvia Plath
Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Roman Payne
Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August. Denise Levertov
I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year. Bridgette Willard
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Celia Thaxter
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
Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne. Bryan Waller Procter
When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Wilma Rudolph
I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. Susan Branch
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. Aimee Friedman
Some people are so much sunshine in every square inch. Walt Whitman
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
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