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55 Beautiful Quotes To Celebrate The Sweet Bliss Of Summer

Nothing is more perfect than bare skin, hot sun, and the feeling that these days are endless.
Marisa Donnelly
July 7, 2016
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that’s the way to live.”
— Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
Tagged: Beat, Happiness, Swimming, Summer, Wine, My aesthetic, Nature
“The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.”
— Dan Simmons, Drood
Tagged: Summer, June, Spring, Bloom, Bloom Too Early, Sunlight, Breeze
“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
Tagged: Summer, Renewal, Sunshine, New Beginnings, Nature Is A Remedy, Nature
“Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.”
— Darrell Hammond, via Summer Love Notes
Tagged: Summer, laziness, Being Lazy, Relaxation
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
— Regina Brett, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer, Relaxation, Lazy, relax
“It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, / It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while / She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand / I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.”
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Tagged: Summer, Feeling Like A Child, Laughing, Happiness, Summer Love
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
— Henry James, Backward Glance
Tagged: Summer, Summer Afternoons, Summer Bliss
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.”
— Susan Polis Schutz, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer, Dancing, Celebrating Life, Flowers, Innocence
“It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”
— Kenny Chesney, Summertime
Tagged: Summer, Summertime, Happiness, Wine
“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”
— Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Tagged: Summer, Summertime, Reading, Relaxation
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
— Charles Bowden, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer, Summertime, The Best Of Times
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
— Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Tagged: June, Summer, Smell Of Roses, Happiness, The Best Of Times, Sunshine
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne's House Of Dreams
Tagged: Summer, Memories, Summertime, Happiness, The Best Of Times
“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, The Use of Life
Tagged: Rest, Relaxation, Summer, Summer Days
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Adventure, Summer Adventures, Hope, Believe
“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
— Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Loving Yourself In Summer, Courage, Finding Strength
“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Summer, Summer Nights, Beautiful Language
“We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our destiny . By late afternoon our muscles ached, our eyelids grew heavy with obscure desires. And so we dreamed and did nothing, for what was there to do, played ping-pong and went to the beach, loafed in backyards, slept late into the morning – and always we craved adventures so extreme we could never imagine them. 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, Dangerous Laughter
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Adventure, Summer Adventures, Summer Vibes, Summer Feels
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
— k. d. lang, Summerfling
Tagged: Summer, Summertime, Summer Love, Summer Fling
“There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.”
— Nora Roberts, Rising Tides
Tagged: Summer, Saturdays, Summer Days, Endless Summer
“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”
— Michael Faudet, via twitter.com
Tagged: Taste Of Summer, Summer, Summertime, Summer Adventures
“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”
— Kellie Elmore, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer, Summer Memories
“I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand. Life is good today. Life is good today.”
— Zach Brown Band, "Toes"
Tagged: No Worries, Summer, Summer Days, Relaxation
“Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.”
— Unknown, via twitter.com
Tagged: Summer, Defining Summer
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
— Kellie Elmore, via Tumblr
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Summer Feels
“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”
— Bob Marley, "Sun Is Shining"
Tagged: Summer, Summer Weather, Summer Vibes, Dancing
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”
— James Dent, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer Days, Summer, laziness, Summer Laziness, Relaxation, Perfect Ending
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
— Wallace Stevens, "The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm"
Tagged: Summer, Summer Nights, Perfection, Poetry
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”
— Ada Louise Huxtable, On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Relaxation, Drunk On Summer, Summer Feels
“How sweet I roamed from field to field, 
and tasted all the summer's pride.”
— William Blake, "Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field"
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Summer Laziness, Summer Relaxation, Poetry