56 Hello August Quotes To Welcome This Beautiful Month

August is here.

There is something about this month that feels different. It carries the weight of a summer that is almost over, but it still holds enough warmth to make you want to slow down and stay a little longer.

Some people love the fresh start it brings. Others feel the quiet sadness of watching summer slip away. Most feel both at the same time.

These hello August quotes capture that strange, beautiful mix of feelings that this month always brings.

Hello August Quotes

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” — Sylvia Plath

“To recommence in August.” — Lord Byron

“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

“August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water.” — Mary Oliver

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” — Denise Levertov

“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

“August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.” — Tove Jansson

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land.” — Tove Jansson

“August is ripening grain in the fields. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.” — Jean Hersey

“In August, the large masses of berries gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Hello, August. You warm, green, golden month of peace and progress.” — Mary Rickert

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” — Sarah Dessen

“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us, long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” — Lauren Oliver

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

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” — Sara Baume

“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.” — Victoria Erickson

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

“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.” — Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

“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 crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.” — E.B. White

“August was nearly over, the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear, the first sign of advancing autumn.” — Victor Nekrasov

“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks.” — John Burroughs

“Goodbye July, with your sun-kissed days and balmy nights. Hello August, bringer of opportunities and the promise of growth.” — A.D. Posey

“Farewell, July! Your departure gifts us the chance to write new chapters in the book of our lives. Welcome, August, with open hearts and open minds.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

“One month ends, another begins; embrace the cycle of life like the changing of seasons, as July gracefully steps aside for August to dance.” — Kamand Kojouri

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

“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

“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca

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

“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.” — Meka Boyle

“August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.” — Henry Rollins

“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.” — Rolf van der Wind

“The calm of a thousand summers, and dreams of countless Junes, return when the lake-wind murmurs through golden August noons.” — William Braithwaite

“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving sun is in its exaltation, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.” — Max Heindel

“One day you discover you are alive, but not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” — Ray Bradbury

“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I have been listening to in the late spring and summer.” — Henry Rollins

“I don’t know about you, but August is still an important chapter in summer’s novel.” — Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades. The final moments before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.” — Rasmenia Massoud

“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.” — George R.R. Martin

“Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.” — Rick Bass

“It’s always summer somewhere.” — Lilly Pulitzer

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” — Anton Chekhov

“August is a gentle reminder that peace doesn’t have to be loud.” — Unknown

“August is like the Sunday of summer, so close to the end but still full of possibilities.” — Unknown

“It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.” — Ann Patchett

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In late August, summer wears its old clothes. The trees are flush with leaves, thrift store rough around the edges, beginning to show their age. Acorns drop.” — Robert Manchester

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

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus