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The golden shades and the warmth of the summer are starting to fade.
The first hints of autumn can hardly be observed somewhere on the horizon.
The end of the summer is here.
A bittersweet time to reflect lovingly back on the season that has been. About the memories – both sad and joyful under the bright sun – that you will keep with you for a long time.
To help you get the best out of this special time of the year, I want to share 82 of the most powerful, beautiful and funny end of the summer quotes.
I hope you will find something useful and positive here.
Wonderful end of the summer quotes to celebrate what has been there
“Summer has always been good for me, even the bittersweet end, with the oblique yellow light.”
– Paul Monette
“The morning was clear and cold, with a crispiness that hinted at the end of the summer.”
– George RR Martin
“When summer collects her robes of glory and slips away like a dream of beauty.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman
“The winds from the end of the summer make people restless.”
– Sebastian Faulks
“To say that it was a beautiful day, it would not start to explain. It was that day that the end of the summer was perfectly crossed with the start of autumn.”
– Ann Patchett
“When the summer opens, I see how quickly it matures and fears it will be short; but after the heat of July and August, I have reconciled, like someone who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This morning the sun stays past dawn. I realize that it is August: the last position of the summer.”
– Sara Baume
“August Rain: the best of the summer disappeared, and the new fall not yet born. The strange unequal time.”
– Sylvia Plath
“How good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweet.”
– John Steinbeck
“Summer ends and autumn is coming, and he who would like it otherwise would always have flood and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland
“The rains from the end of the summer were very bad, fell warm and gradually chilling where they fell.”
– Lael Wonnenbaker
“The summer ends and we wonder where we are.”
– Robert Peter Williams
“A little summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”
– Paul Dini
“Summer evening – even the stars whispering to each other.”
– Kobayashi Issa
“The summer evening is like a perfection of thinking.”
– Wallace Stevens
“As imperceptible as sadness / summer finally / too imperceptibly finally / to look like perfidy”
– Emily Dickinson
“Against all these beautiful tokens, September days here, with the summers are the best weather and autumn the best of the cheers.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“Ah, summer, what power you should make and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“Every September comes a day when you wake up and know that summer has passed and the fall has arrived. The impact of the sun looks different and there is something in the air – a coolness, a touch of icy mornings to follow.”
– Ann Rinaldi
Inspirational end of the summer quotes to embrace change
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“The Tans will fade, but the memories will take forever.”
– Unknown
“There will be the eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“In the summer the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams
“When winter comes, the summer shines endless in our hearts!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Summer leaves quietly. Just like a traveler who is approaching the end of a great journey.”
– Darnell Lamont Walker
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they are happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“You have to keep a little summer even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; for me that have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
“I know I’m in your heart for the summer, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
“It’s always somewhere in the summer.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“Life and summer are volatile, the bird sang. Snow and dark, and the winter is coming. Nothing remains the same.”
– Elyne Mitchell
“If it could only be that – always the summer, always alone, always, the fruit always ripe.”
– Evelyn Waugh
“We need society, and we also need loneliness, because we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and tranquility.”
– Philip Gilbert Hameron
“August brings sharp focus and a furious cooks everything I have listened to in late spring and summer.”
– Henry Rollins
“In the middle of the winter I discovered that there was an invincible summer in me.”
– Albert Camus
“The time that leads to control depends on the intensity of our focus.”
– Robert Greene
“Because they are the knights of the summer, and the winter is coming.”
– George RR Martin
“De Krekels thought it was their duty to warn everyone that summer cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the entire year – the days that summer changes in the fall – the crickets spread the rumor and change.”
– EB WHITE
“The end has come, as comes, it must, for all things; in these dear June days, the teacher and the Scholar Trust, their farewell feet to separate ways.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
“It’s still summer, but summer is no longer alive.”
– Tove Jansson
“The summer is to surrender; the winter is wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
Funny end of the summer quotes
“Thanks for the brown lines, mosquito bites and memories, summer.”
– Unknown
“I don’t remember the summer, even farewell.”
– David Mitchell
“If June was the start of a hopeful summer, and July the juice -Midden, Augustus suddenly felt the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen
“The summer should get a speed card.”
– Unknown
“See you, good times and brown lines.”
– Unknown
“People take pictures of the summer, in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.”
– Ray Davies
“August is like Sunday of summer.”
– Unknown
“I need the summer to be longer, so I have more time to do nothing.”
– Unknown
“August, the last messenger of the summer of misery, is a hollow actor.”
– Henry Rollins
“Unfortunately, summer sun cannot last forever. The days will be cooler and shorter, and our skin will turn out again.”
– Sarah Maclean
“It’s the end of the summer. It’s the end of everything. Those days have disappeared, it’s now over, we’re going further.”
– theory of a deadman
“August is the last flicker of pleasure and heat before everything fades and dies.”
– Rasmenia Massoud
“Caught in the Doldrums of Augustus, we may have regretted the departing summer …”
– Denis Mackail
“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see Double and Act Single.”
– Unknown
“A fallen magazine is nothing more than the wave of a summer.”
– Unknown
“Looking at summer is when looking at a good child to die for no clear reason.”
– Darnell Lamont Walker
“Summer, you have been a dream. Until we meet again!”
– Unknown
“See you, summer. Hello, Pumpkin Spice!”
– Unknown
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
Short end of the summer quotes for your letterboard or Instagram
“Summer memories last forever.”
– Unknown
“… and all at the same time, the summer collapsed in the fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Listen! The wind rises and the sky is wild with leaves.”
– Humbert Wolfe
“The summer, with its dog days, his holidays, his distractions, is over.”
– BC Forbes
“Summer always ends with good memories.”
– Unknown
“The rental agreement of the summer has too short date.”
– William Shakespeare
“August slid away like a bottle of wine.”
– Taylor Swift
“August has passed and yet the summer continues with violence to grow.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“The end of the summer is around the corner.”
– Erica Baumeister
“I could never get tired of this in a hundred summers.”
– Susan Branch
“Autumn was on the way and I waited with impatience.”
– Unknown
“It’s never full of the extra mile.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Summer Lovin”, had me fantastic. Summer Lovin “happened so quickly.”
– Fat
“Here is the spirit of the summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of the summer.”
– William E. Henley
“If everything else fails, take a vacation.”
– Betty Williams
“Summer will end quickly enough, and also youth.”
– George RR Martin
“Life shrinks or expands in relation to someone’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
“August is the bridge between summer and autumn.”
– Unknown
“New beginning is often disguised as painful endings.”
– Lao Tzu
“Beyond are the birds that were our summer guests.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“On the banks of the magic of nature, I dreamed that the summer did not know an end.”
-Angie Weiland-Crosby
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