Quotes About August
Holding on to the last fleeting days of summer
It always happens this way: One minute we are ushering in summer and almost as quickly as it arrived, here comes August and we realize there are not a lot of days left in the season to enjoy. These quotes are about August, and how we enjoy the last fleeting days of summer.
1. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
-Sylvia Plath
2. “Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there’s a star called Aldebaran? And that 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
3. “August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”
-Henry Rollins
4. “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
-Sue Monk Kidd
5. “August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.”
-Willard Scott
6. “This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
-Sara…
