82 End of Summer Quotes to Celebrate the Change of Seasons

Reflecting on the End of Summer

As the golden hues of summer start to fade, and the first hints of autumn appear on the horizon, it’s time to bid farewell to the season. The end of summer is a bittersweet moment, filled with memories both sad and joyful, that will stay with you for a long time.

To help you make the most of this special time of the year, here are 82 powerful, beautiful, and funny end of summer quotes that celebrate what has been.

Beautiful End of Summer Quotes

“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

“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

“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.