Life

Summer Quotes That Will Make You Actually Like Summer

by Kiersten Hickman

I'm sure when Frozen was released a few years back, you finally felt like Disney understood your personality. I'm not talking adventurous like Anna or rebellious like Elsa, but the fact that "the cold doesn't bother you anyway." You're in a ice queen and you know it, which is pretty much why you hate summer. So I'm hoping that a few summer quotes might make you actually like the season.

I know I'm asking for the impossible, especially if you hate to sweat. Summer means sweating through you shirt, chaffing, mosquitos, frizzy hair, melted makeup, and restless nights because sleeping in the heat sucks. I get it, summer can sometimes be the absolute worst.

But it's hard to not enjoy a new season, especially when it means enduring it for three or four months. So instead of concentrating on the negative, let's look at the positive: Sunsets, bonfires, beach days, frosé, ice cream, and so much more. If this is only slightly getting you excited for this new season, then I will turn you to some of the best with words to get you revived and ready for the season ahead.

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

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

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

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” — Diane Ackerman

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.” — Bryan Procter

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change." ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

“Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.” — Georg Brandes

“We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.” — Gary Zukav

"Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine." ― Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles

“As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.” — Neil Gaiman

“I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.” — Ed Westwick

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontentment

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” — Nora Ephron

“There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party — let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendor, speak for itself.” — Pippa Middleton

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” — Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm