Find flowers fascinating?
You’ll love these short flower quotes!
This collection has the shortest quotes around, including:
- Flower quotes about life
- Flower love quotes
- Flower quotes about beauty and joy
- Flower garden quotes
They’re ideal to accompany your flower photos – as Instagram captions, or as graphics when you use apps to add text to photos.
With images to inspire your own creations.
Let’s stroll in right now!
Very Short Flower Quotes
These super short flower sayings are perfect to make picture quotes online, or use on your other creations like T shirts, mugs, or aprons.
Just bloom.
~ Unknown
Earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because of you, I bloom.
~ Dani
Flowers really do intoxicate me.
~ Vita Sackville-West
April showers bring May flowers.
~ Unknown
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~ Heinrich Heine
Every flower blooms in its own time.
~ Ken Petti
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
~ John Lennon
I must have flowers, always, and always.
~ Claude Monet
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
~ Gerard de Nerval
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
~ Theodore Roethke
Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.
~ G.K. Chesterton
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~ Claude Monet
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
~ Kakuzō Okakura
Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
~ Conan Doyle
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…
~ Susan Polis Shutz
Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
~ Robert Leighton
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
~ John Ruskin
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.
~ Arundhati Roy
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Flower Love Quotes
From very short quotes about flowers and love, to longer ones!
I love you bunches.
~ Unknown
My love for you blossoms every day.
~ Unknown
In the garden of love, flowers don’t die.
~Nitya Prakash
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
~ John Lennon
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo
A sunflower teaches us so much about love.
~ Samrah Ahmad
Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant.
~ Unknown
True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.
~ Ana Claudia Antunes
She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind.
~ Erin Hanson
A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows.
~Rob Cella
Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~ Stevie Wonder
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
~ Max Muller
…where always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
~ e.e. cummings
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.
~ Shantideva
Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun.
~ Remez Sasson
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
~ Thomas Moore
It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.
~ Lou Rawls
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller
Flower Quotes about Life
Flowers can give us cues about life, via these quotes!
Every flower must grow through dirt.
~ Laurie Jean Sennott
We are all golden sunflowers inside.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Every flower blooms at its own pace.
~ Suzy Kassem
Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.
~Michele Farabee
Learn from flowers – always angle towards the sun.
~ Maureen Joyce Connolly
Be like a flower. Survive the rain but use it to grow.
~ Unknown
Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
~ Shannon Mullen
May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.
~ Xan Oku
Be careful with words. They can be both flowers and bruises.
~ Anne Sexton
Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower.
~ Debasish Mridha
Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.
~ Stephen Richards
Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.
~ Unknown
Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.
~ Ellen Everett
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
~ Mao Zedong
Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.
~ Bryant McGill
Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.
~ Mark Twain
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
~ Zen Shin
A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth,
As without light, nothing flowers.
~ May Sarton
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water.
~ Brian Jacques
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~ The Koran
If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.
~ Buddha
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
~ Jean Giraudoux
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion, or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~ Hal Borland
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~ Walt Whitman
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~ Henri Matisse
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~ Corita Kent
Plant what you want to see grow.
~ Dani
Check out this collection of 133positive quotes for life.
Then come back and keep scrolling for more bouquets of flower quotes!
Flower Garden Quotes
A flower garden brings all the beauty of flowers together! Enjoy these quotes about flower gardens.
Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.
~ Luther Burbank
Flowers are the music of the ground
From earth’s lips spoken without sound.
~ Edwin Curran
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
~ Walt Whitman
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
~ Clare Ansberry
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
~ Steve Maraboli
Like every other seed, they turn into a beautiful flower.
~ Sally Wen
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller
Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear.
~ Moderata Fonte
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
~ Unknown
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
~ Herbert Rappaport
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
~ William Shakespeare
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
~ John Harrigan
Little deeds are like seeds,
They grow to flowers or weeds.
~ Daniel D. Palmer
I bet you’ll enjoy these love for nature quotes.
Or keep going, because there are yet more flower sayings below!
Wildflower and Weed Quotes
One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
~ Sheryl Crow
The first wildflower of the year is like land after sea.
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
~ Edward Abbey
A weed is but an unloved flower.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~ A.A. Milne
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
~ Andrew Mason
The difference between a weed and a flower is all in how we name it.
~Dani
Keep the encouragement going with these motivational quotes.
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Flower Quotes about Beauty
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers whisper “Beauty!” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.
~ Dr. SunWolf
A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
~ Terri Guillemets
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.
~ Stephen King, Salem’s Lot
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
~ Jim Carrey
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
How can one help shivering with delight when one’s hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!
~ Colette
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.
~ Lydia M. Child
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Flower Quotes about Joy
Flowers bring joy to the world, and these quotes celebrate it!
To me, flowers are happiness.
~ Stefano Gabbana
All nature wears one universal grin.
~ Henry Fielding
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
~ Japanese Proverb
Flowers are the remnants of paradise on earth.
~ John of Kronstadt
Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.
~ Unknown
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~ Matsuo Basho
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
~ Luther Burbank
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~ Iris Murdoch
Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.
~ Dodinsky
If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don’t miss this collection of Spring quotes.
Funny Flower Quotes
If Earth laughs in flowers, why not laugh along with these funny flower quotes?
Flowers are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful’, and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~ Doug Larson
Daisies: the original fortune tellers.
~ Unknown
Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?
~ Robert Brault
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~ Marcelene Cox
Bless my bloomers.
~ Unknown
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
~ Brian Clough
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
~ Ruth Brown
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
~ Robert Heinlein
Gardening is just another day at the plant.
~ Unknown
I named all my children after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
~ Bert Williams
Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.
~ Oscar Levant
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More Flower Quotes
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~ Basho
‘God will reward you,’ he said. ‘You must be an angel since you care for flowers.’
~ Victor Hugo
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~ Beverly Nichols
‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~ William Wordsworth
You can crush the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.
~ Pablo Neruda
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson
Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?
~ Robert Brault
I hope someday to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
~ Robert Brault
Have you seen our April quotes?
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~ Tennessee Williams
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~ Antonio Porchia
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~ Ikkyu Sojun
Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
~ Edward Payson Rod
Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler’s dower.
~ William Allingham
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~ Auguste Rodin
The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence…
~ Phillip Pulfrey
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
~ John Muir
With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring,
And asters purple asterisks for autumn.
~ Conrad Aiken
The poet’s darling.
~ William Wordsworth, To the Daisy
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
~ Gertrude S. Wister
God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
~ From a saying by Jacques Deval
If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.
~ Jarod Kintz
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