44 End of Summer Quotes to Say Goodbye to the Season
Summer always feels like it goes by too fast, so we’ve put together a list of all the best end of summer quotes to help you say goodbye.
And if you’re looking for short and nostalgic summer sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
End of Summer Quotes for Instagram
“To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.” — Ann Patchett
“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary…” — Lea Malot
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.” — Paul Monette
“It is the glistening autumnal side of summer… I realize what a friend I am losing.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be.” — William E. Henley
“If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” — Evelyn Waugh
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” — Susan Branch
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” — George R.R. Martin
“With all these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and the autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” — William Shakespeare
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away.” — Sarah Helen Whitman
“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.” — George R.R. Martin
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“It’s always summer somewhere.” — Lilly Pulitzer
“Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.” — Darnell Lamont Walker
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born.” — Sylvia Plath
“The summer ends and we wonder where we are.” — Robert Peter Williams
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.” — E.B. White
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.” — Hal Borland
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” — Sebastian Faulks
“Summer should get a speeding ticket.”
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
“Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.” — Darnell Lamont Walker
“August is like the Sunday of summer.”
“Summer, you’ve been a dream. Until we meet again!”
“It’s the end of the summer. It’s the end of it all. Those days are gone, it’s over now, we’re moving on.” — Theory Of a Deadman
“Summer memories last forever.”
“Summer always ends with good memories.”
“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed.” — Yann Martel
“Summer, you were a page-turner. Can’t wait for the sequel next year!” — Unknown
“Farewell, summer! Your memories will keep us warm through winter’s chill.” — Unknown
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.” — Henry Rollins
“Summer’s end is around the corner.” — Erica Bauermeister
“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived.” — Ann Rinaldi
“Summer night— even the stars are whispering to each other.” — Kobayashi Issa
“Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.” — Darnell Lamont Walker
“August slipped away like a bottle of wine.” — Taylor Swift
“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over.” — B.C. Forbes
“August is the bridge between summer and autumn.” — Unknown
“Summer always ends with good memories.” — Unknown
“The rains of summer’s end were very like tears, falling warm and gradually chilling where they fell.” — Lael Wertenbaker
“Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise.” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.” — Debasish Mridha
