60 Welcome August Quotes to Say Hello to the Last Month of Summer
As we bid farewell to July and welcome the last month of summer, August brings with it a mix of excitement and nostalgia.
Whether you’re enjoying the final days of vacation or gearing up for new beginnings, these quotes will help you embrace the warmth and beauty of August.
Our Favorite August Quotes
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen
“That August time it was delight / To watch the red moons wane to white.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?” – Elizabeth Enright
“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away in a moment of time…” – Taylor Swift
“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks.” – Henry David Thoreau
“August is like the Sunday of summer.”
“The August sunsets are like a lover’s kiss, warm and lingering.”
“August: the month of ripening.” – Hal Borland
“August is the bridge between summer and autumn.”
“When August days are hot an’ dry, I won’t sit by an’ sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle (on the sly), And go ahead, and fish, and lie…” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.” – Mary Oliver
“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 Emmerson
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified.” – Denis Mackail
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
Short August Captions and Quotes for Instagram
“Trust me, summer isn’t over just yet.”
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
August slipped away
Chapter 8: August
Bye, Summer.
In my sunshine era ☀️
Hello, August
Summer recap
summer sizzle ☀️💦
The life 😎
Rise then shine
Manifesting August
“Ain’t nothing like those summer nights.”
“August is upon us and we welcome it with beaming smiles and open hearts.”
“Dear August, I’m sorry for what I said when I thought you were September.”
“Technically, it’s still summer.”
“Slow down, summer. You’re giving us August already.”
“Can it just be summer year-round?”
“In my book, summer isn’t going anywhere.”
“August already? Someone show me the nearest pool.”
“August: where the days are long, and the nights are starry.”
“Sunsets in August are like a warm hug from the universe.”
“August, you’re my favorite kind of summer.”
Welcome August Sayings
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen.
“Around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars.” – Elizabeth Enright.
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov.
“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.
“The quiet August noon has come; A slumberous silence fills the sky; The winds are still, the trees are dumb, In glassy sleep the waters lie.” – William Cullen Bryant.
“August, a breath of fresh air after the scorching July heat.”
“Hello August! Let’s make this month unforgettable.”
“Welcome August! The last hurrah of summer, let’s enjoy every moment.”
“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brownbeneath the August sun.” — Kent Nerburn
“That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school… The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.” — Garth Brooks
“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” ― Melanie Gideon
“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.” — Gladys Taber
“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.” — Pat Conroy
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer… like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.” ― Natalie Babbitt
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.” — Henry Rollins
