150+ Best Summer Captions & Quotes for Instagram (2024)

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“Sun is shining. The weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”
~ Bob Marley

“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
~ Henry James

“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.”
~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
~ John Lubbock

“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 wasbeginning over again with the summer.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald,The Great Gatsby

“I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.”
~ Terri Guillemets

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
~ William Shakespeare

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”
~ Langston Hughes

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
~ John Mayer

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.”
~ John Steinbeck

“We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.”
~ Jenny Uglow

“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
~ Brian Wilson

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
~ John Steinbeck

“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
~ Wilma Rudolph

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
~ Sylvia Plath

“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
~ Aimee Friedman

“Summer. Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.”

“Never stop chasing your summer.”

“Life is better when you’re under the sun.”

“Life’s a beach, enjoy the waves.”

“Summer nights & city lights.”

“Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.”
~ Bryan Procter

“Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.”

“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine…it’s summertime!”
~ Kenny Chesney

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
~ Maud Hart Lovelace

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
~ Charles Bowden

“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”
~ Shanti

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.”
~ Mungo Jerry

“Every summer leaves you with a new story to tell.”

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
~ L. M. Montgomery

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
~ Edna St. Vincent Mallay

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
~ Kellie Elmore

“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”
~ Michael Faudet

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”

“You are so much sunshine in every square inch.”
~ Walt Whitman

“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather,delightful friendsand delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
~ L.M. Montgomery

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
~ Anna Godberson

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
~ C. Day-Lewis

“It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”
~ L.M. Montgomery

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
~ William Carlos Williams

“I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.”
~ Don Green

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
~ Wallace Stevens

“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
~ Susan Branch

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
~ Robert Orben

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
~ Celia Thaxter

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
~ Helen Keller

“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”
~ Evelyn Waugh

“When all else fails, take a vacation.”
~ Betty Williams

“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
~ Raymond Duncan

“I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.”

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
~ Patricia Briggs

“Less Monday, more summer.”

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
~ Regina Brett

“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double, and act single.”

“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”

“A balanced diet is ice cream in each hand.”

“The only man worth chasing this summer is the ice cream man.”

“Happy first day of summer to my deodorant.”

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
~ Russell Baker

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

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

“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
~ Walter Winchell

“SPF is your BFF.”

“Good times & tan lines.”

“Summer’s officially here!”

“Sunshine on my mind.”

“Summer adventures are what I live for.”

“Tropic like it’s hot.”

“Dear sun, how about chilling up a bit?”

“Sugar & Spice (but mostly sugar)”

“Life’s just easy in summer.”

“A sunny state of mind.”

“Feeling Tan-Tastic.”

“Forever chasing the sun.”

“I don’t need a man, I need tequila and a tan.”

“Summer is a state of mind.”

“Never stop having sun.”

“Have a cup of laughter, love, and lots of sunshine.”

“A never-ending summer is only a dream.”

“Here comes the sun!”

“Try smiling like the sun.”

“SUNdays are my favorite.”

“Best summer ever <3”

“Summer lovin’”

“Searching for paradise? Follow the sun.”

“How about some fun in the sun?”

“You’re responsible for making your own sunshine.”

“It’s always summer somewhere.”
~ Lilly Pulitzer

“The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.”

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
~ Porgy and Bess

“She had that whiskey sipping skinny dipping smile.”
~ Atticus

“Let this summer not hold you back.”

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…”
~ Susan Polis Schutz

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
~ Susan Branch

“Summer is the season we live for.”

“Souls of sunshine.”

“Never trade these summer days.”

“Golden hour is my happy hour.”

“Sunsets & iced coffees.”

“Live by the sun, love by the moon.”

“Sun, sand, sea – a recipe for my happiness.”

“Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls.”

“Let us sunset and chill.”

“I was made for sunny days.”

“So much water, such little time.”

“Summertime is the paradise wanderers wish for.”

“Watch more sunsets than Netflix.”

“How about 6 months summer, twice every year?”

“Summer should get a speeding ticket.”

“I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned upon me.”

“Summer vacation is when you drink triple, see double, and act single.”

“Avoid pier pressure.”

“I’d rather lay by the pool’s side than stay by the fool’s side.”

“What does the sun drink out of? Sunglasses!”

“Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.”

“What did the ocean say to the shore? Nothing — it just waved.”

“Girls just wanna have sun.”

“Any ideas why bananas use sunscreen? ‘cos they peel.”

“Pool hair, don’t care.”

“What is the best day to go to the beach? SUNday!”

“Fluent in s’mores code.”

“Hanging with my grill friends.”

“Anything is popsicle.”

“Happy as a clam.”

“My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.”
~ Terri Guillemets

“I was made for sunny days.”

“Happiness is cold watermelon.”

“Summer, I’ll always remember with people I’ll never forget.”

“Don’t worry. Beach happy.”

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
~ Jeannette Walls

“I need to go where there are no shoes and no responsibilities.”

“You’re one in a melon.”

“I’m just a girl standing in front of a photo asking it to be Instagram-worthy.”

“You are so much sunshine in every square inch.”
~ Walt Whitman

“Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer.”
~ Nat King Cole

“Are you sunburnt or always this hot?”

“Water you doing?”

“What time is it? Summertime!”

“You’re the lime to my tequila.”

“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”
~ Kellie Elmore

“Feeling beachy.”

“If it requires a bikini, my answer is yes.”

“Salt in the air, sand in my hair.”

“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
~ Van Morrison

“Summer. Friends. Beach.”

“Love you to the beach and back.”

“You, me, and the sea.”

“Sea la vie!”

“Happiness can never be purchased, but you can spend a day on the beach and it’s the closest you can get to happiness.”

“Ocean air, salty hair.”

“Sun of a beach.”

“Sea you soon.”

“Sunsets & palm trees”

“Where there’s a will, there’s a wave.”

“Shell we dance?”

“Nothing but summer and the beaches make me feel alive.”

“Friends, sun, and beach – What else could one ask for?”

“What’s life without a beach?”

“Long time no sea.”

“Stay salty.”

“I’m pretty shore that this will be a great summer.”

“All I need is vitamin sea.”

“Seas the day.”

“Happiness comes in waves.”

“Eat. Sleep. Beach. Repeat.”

“Life’s a beach.”