August is here! Are you ready for a new month? Are you searching for quotes to add to your August social media posts? If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following quotes for August.
- “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
- “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 slipped away into a moment in time, ’cause it was never mine.” — Taylor Swift
- “This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
- “Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
- “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
- “When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.” – Sarah Helen Whitman
- “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” — Sarah Dessen
- “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han
- “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. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.” — Tove Jansson
- “August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” — Joseph Wood Krutch
- “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 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.” — Viktor Někrasov
- “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, The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.” — Natalie Babbitt
- “It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” ― Melanie Gideon
- “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
- “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
- “August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.” – Meka Boyle
- “August, I’ll see you soon, under yellow moons, where I’ll gather what’s left of you.” – Rilo Kiley
Happy August! Have a great month!
