Summer Quotes
2247 Summer quotes by 1522 unique authors
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As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made…
— William Trevor
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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in…
— Oscar Wilde
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We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone,…
— Joanne Harris
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I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I…
— Steven Wright
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not…
— Willa Cather
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From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a…
— John Crowley
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When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,…
— Michael Chabon
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So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind…
— Augusten Burroughs
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In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had…
— D. H. Lawrence
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O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and…
— William Ernest Henley
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.
— Sylvia Plath
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
— Bertrand Russell
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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know,…
— Lewis Carroll
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...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty…
— Wallace Stevens
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- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The…
— Emily Dickinson
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would…
— Lewis Carroll
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
— William Shakespeare
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We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and…
— Anne Rice
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When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights.…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Summer Quotes
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