84 Hot Weather Quotes For Long Days Sunshine And Summer Heat

Hot weather feels intense and heavy. The sun beats down and you find yourself looking for any excuse to find shade and catch a cool breeze.

But there is a certain magic to the heat. It forces you to pause rest and appreciate the lazy days of summer.

These hot weather quotes remind you to enjoy the warmth even when the temperatures peak.

Hot Weather Quotes

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” — Russell Baker

“The sun did not rise, it overflowed.” — Ray Bradbury

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” — Harry S. Truman

“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” — Ronald Reagan

“When even shadows need shadows to cool off, you must know that the weather is incredibly hot!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” — Jane Austen

“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” — Sue Monk Kidd

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.” — Natalie Babbitt

“Texas… was evidently the only place in the known universe that actually got hotter after the sun went down.” — Kathleen Kent

“The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.” — Victoria Aveyard

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” — William Shakespeare

“Nothing makes me so excessively peevish as hot weather.” — Jonathan Swift

“At night, hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain and its central nerves, which sizzle like the inside of an electric-light bulb.” — Truman Capote

“Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.” — Sydney Smith

“It was a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” — Walter Winchell

“The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it’s what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we’ve said it.” — Stan Barstow

“The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.” — Marie Osmond

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.” — Everett Dirksen

“Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.” — Harper Lee

“August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.” — Gertrude Stein

“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

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” — Sam Keen

“The mild heat of the morning sun is a healing gift from heaven.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

“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

“The summer looked out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July.” — Francis Thompson

“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.” — Dante Alighieri

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.” — John Ruskin

“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees… I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” — Wallace Stevens

“In summer, the song sings itself.” — William Carlos Williams

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” — C. Day Lewis

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” — Jenny Han

“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda

“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies.” — Toni Morrison

“The days were longer then… when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.” — George Eliot

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck

“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.” — Deb Caletti

“Summer just opens the door and lets you out.” — Deb Caletti

“Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” — Yoko Ono

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” — L.M. Montgomery

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” — Hans Christian Andersen

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” — William Shakespeare

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” — Celia Thaxter

“The sun shines not on us but in us.” — John Muir

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” — Roman Payne

“O Sun! Fervid Sun! You welcome me with summer. Drench me in your rays.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else to do.” — Galileo Galilei

“The sun did not rise, it overflowed.” — Ray Bradbury

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The sun is but a morning star.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The sun is new each day.” — Heraclitus

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” — Helen Keller

“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” — Wilma Rudolph

“A sunny disposition is worth more than a fortune.” — Andrew Carnegie

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer.” — Emily Dickinson

“To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie — true poems flee.” — Emily Dickinson

“Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” — Debasish Mridha

“Summer means happy times and good sunshine.” — Brian Wilson

“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.” — Robert Bridges

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” — John Keats

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” — Van Morrison

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.” — Rumi

“A life without love is like a year without summer.” — Swedish Proverb

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams.” — Hosea Ballou

“Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.” — Melissa Marr

“To be happy, you must be your own sunshine.” — C. E. Jerningham

“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” — Katie Lee

“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” — Psalm 65:11

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” — John Mayer

“The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.” — Unknown

“Every summer has a story.” — Unknown