All good things must come to an end and when that thing is summer, we have put together a list of all the best end of summer quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short end of summer sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
End of Summer Quotes
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”– Sarah Dessen
And summer ends again
“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
“Ice within my heart / Feels like the icicles hanging / I miss summer time”– Jean Elizabeth Ward
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”– Helen Keller
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”– John Steinbeck
“We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.” – Philip Gilbert Hamerton
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”— Debasish Mridha
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”– Russell Baker
This is not a goodbye, but a sea you real soon
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”– Henry David Thoreau
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”– Dodie Smith
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”– J.K. Rowling
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”– Henry James
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”– Jeannette Walls
“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”– Oscar Wilde
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”― Kellie Elmore
There is always that one summer that changes you.
“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies.”– Rasmenia Massoud
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”—William Shakespeare
A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.
“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”― Rowland E. Robinson
“It’s always summer somewhere.”– Lily Pulitzer
Never stop chasing your summer
“Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”– George R.R. Martin
“Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don’t remember summer even saying goodbye.” — David Mitchell
Every summer has a story.
It was all a dream
“The summer ends and we wonder where we are.”– Robert Peter Williams
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” – Henry Rollins
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”― Paul Monette
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”– Debasish Mridha
“In summer, the song sings itself.”– William Carlos Williams
“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”– Tove Jansson
“But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.” ― Stephen King
Salty about summer ending
Goodbye to summer and hello to fall.
August is like the Sunday of summer.
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”– Sam Keen
A summer I’ll always remember with people I’ll never forget
“These summer nights are short.”― Patrick Leigh Fermor
Summer should get a speeding ticket – goes by way too fast!
“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”– Helen Hunt Jackson
“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
Goodbye summer. It’s been fun!
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”– Wallace Stevens
“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and Autumn was awaked.”— Raquel Franco
I dream of summers that last forever
“August slipped away like a bottle of wine.”— Taylor Swift
Keep calm and pretend you are at the beach
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”– Slyvia Plath
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”– Brian Wilson
Until next time, summer
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”– Albert Camus
“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”– George R.R. Martin
Sorry, no summer under the water
“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
“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.”― Ali Smith
“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away— / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy”– Emily Dickinson
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”– John Mayer
The last waves of summer
“The rains of summer’s end were very like tears, falling warm and gradually chilling where they fell.”– Lael Wertenbaker
“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
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”– Celia Thaxter
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”– Sara Baume
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes.”– Hal Borland
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”– Henry Rollins
Summer is over. Time to officially remember what day of the week it is.
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”– Edna St. Vincent Mallay
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”– Anna Godbersen
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”– Sebastian Faulks
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” – Susan Branch
“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us.”– B.C. Forbes
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow.”– Jonathan Safran Foer
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.”―E.B. White
“Why do spring and summer have to go?”– Joe Wheeler
“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”– George R.R. Martin
“How much of the year is spring and fall! how little can be called summer! The grass is no sooner grown than it begins to wither.”– Henry David Thoreau
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.” – Stephen King
Summer, you are my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye
“With all these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summers best of weather and the autumns best of cheer.”– Helen Hunt Jackson
Oh no! Summer is over
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”– Henry Rollins
“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” – Evelyn Waugh
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
Goodbye summer, hello fall
The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”—Jenny Han
“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures.”– Lea Malot
“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealthy flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, 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
Spending the end of summer on the beach
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”– Sarah Helen Whitman
“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures…”— Henry David Thoreau
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”– Paul Dini
“Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer…”― Denis Mackail
“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.”– Darnell Lamont Walker
“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 the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”– Nora Ephron
“’Tis the last rose of summer / Left blooming alone; / All her lovely companions / Are faded and gone.”– Thomas Moore
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” – K.D. Lang
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemet
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”– Bernard Williams
“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”– Bob Marley
Summer’s a wave, catch it
“Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.” – Elyne Mitchell
So that is it for our list of End of Summer Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Back to School Quotes, Hello August Quotes and Lake Life Quotes.
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Laynni Deir
I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.
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