73 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
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han
“August slipped away into a moment in time, ’cause it was never mine.” – Taylor Swift
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
“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
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” – Aimee Friedman
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy 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
“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
“August breeze— perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“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
“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
“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
“It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lily Pulitzer
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks.” – John Burroughs
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” – Melanie Gideon
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.” – Meka Boyle
“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 brown beneath the August sun.” – Kent Nerburn
“August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.” – Tove Jansson
“Leaving any bookstore is hard especially on a day in August when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.” – Jane Smiley
“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
“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… It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons. and sunsets smeared with too much colour.” – Natalie Babbitt
“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.” – Thomas Tusser
“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.” – Gladys Taber
“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” – Sue Monk Kidd
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.” – William Faulkner
“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
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” – Henry Rollins
“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.” – Alice Hoffman
“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.” – Pat Conroy
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between the pages.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“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
“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 Emerson
“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
“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
“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
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
“Welcome August! The last hurrah of summer, let’s enjoy every moment.”
“Hello August! Let’s make this month unforgettable.”
“August, a breath of fresh air after the scorching July heat.”
“August is like the Sunday of summer.”
“August is the bridge between summer and autumn.”
“The August sunsets are like a lover’s kiss, warm and lingering.”
“August: the month of ripening.” – Hal Borland
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.” – Henry Rollins
“Let the sunshine of August inspire you to shine your brightest.”
“August, may you bring warmth, happiness, and new adventures.”
