50 Inspirational Waterfall Quotes to Motivate and Uplift Your Spirit

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

- Margaret Atwood

"Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

- Margaret Atwood

"After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feelings. You have difficulty because you have feelings. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are one with the river or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same things. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life."

- Shunryu Suzuki

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls."

- Munia Khan

"Always be like water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along with the wind which touches its surface."

- Santosh Kalwar

"No matter how powerful a waterfall is, it cannot be heard from far away because all waterfalls are local! If you want the whole world to hear you, take a universal position where all can see you, just like the Moon, just like the Sun!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"I touch god in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"A waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing."

- Bruce Lee

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress."

- Margaret Atwood

"As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can."

- John Muir

"Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall."

- Annie Dillard

"Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen – trusting that whichever way it goes. It’s for the best."

- Mandy Hale

"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall."

- Sheng-yen

"Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks."

- Mehmet Murat İldan

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."

- Laozi

"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone."

- Autumn Morning Star

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea."

- T. S. Eliot

"Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again."

- Gretel Ehrlich

"There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!"

- Mehmet Murat İldan

"No one ever steps into the same river twice."

- Heraclitus

"As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can."

- John Muir

"There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean."

- Agnes Martin

"I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again."

- María Virginia Farinango

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."

- Norman Maclean

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes."

- Guillermo del Toro

"The waterfall teaches us to let go, flow, and stay true to our path."

- Anonymous

"A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Water is the driver of nature."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels, it becomes the path itself."

- Mehmet Murat İldan

"Surrender to the flow."

- Mike Gordon

"There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall."

- Patrick Ness

"Water never falls. It flies!"

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Love like water, searching for the sea. Love like Time, searching for meaning. Love like all that was, and ever will be."

- Gregory David Roberts

"Every teardrop is a waterfall."

- Coldplay

"You don’t have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles. You carry within you the power to make the world better."

- Sharon G. Larsen

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

- Hermann Hesse

"You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together."

- Yoko Ono

"The sound of water is worth more than all the poets words."

- Octavio Paz

"I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

- Anne Frank

"Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen – trusting that whichever way it goes. It's for the best."

- Mandy Hale

"There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall."

- Patrick Ness

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

- Loren Eiseley

"There's no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music."

- Roland R Kemler

"The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words."

- Octavio Paz

"A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"My love for you is like a waterfall, I hit many rocks and crooked paths along the way but in the end, I always end up falling for you again."

- Joshua Pardo

"Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream."

- Vanessa Hunt

"Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful."

- William Stafford

"A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like."

- Vernon Howard

"With meditation, I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts."

- Mary Pipher

"Sometimes, it's hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall."

- Kimberly McCreight

"There’s no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music."

- Roland R. Kemler

"Look with open eyes, and you will see the beauty of the waterfall."

- Anthony Hincks

"Fall like a waterfall & become a new version of yourself when you fall"

- Palak Tewary

"I keep my gratitude in my smile, a glistening waterfall in the sun"

- Sanober Khan

"Life is like a waterfall—it is always moving, and there is always an uneven flow to it."

- Anonymous

"While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in nature; there is happiness if only there is freedom."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"A river that forgets its source will surely dry up."

- Yoruba Proverb

"Run wild and free like a waterfall"

- Anamika Mishra

"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."

- Lucy Larcom

"Adopt the pace of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall."

- Bob Ross

"Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes."

- Guillermo del Toro

"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."

- Mike May

"God is discovered entirely through creation – the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars."

- Benjamin F. Sullivan

"There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul."

- Virginia Alison

"Mist to mist drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

- Hermann Hesse

"She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through."

- Virginia Woolf

"When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me."

- Jack Gilbert

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

- Norman MacLean

"God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of spaces and its countless stars"

- Benjamin F Sullivan

"The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about - clouds, daffodils, waterfalls, what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in - these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks."

- Tom Stoppard

"After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created."

- Shunryu Suzuki

"Life is naked. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them."

- John Ruskin

"The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me."

- Chris Evans

"The fall of your hair is rushing through my head like elegant waterfalls repeatedly dancing down into an open riverbed."

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

"When you’re young, there’s so much that you can’t take in. It’s pouring over you like a waterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love bring older."

- Sigourney Weaver

"We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday."

- Josephine Hart

"There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this."

- John Ruskin

"Above them, a waterfall tumbled from a clifftop as high as a church steeple. The water fell in milky blue strands, shooting spray in the air that danced in rainbows of gold, pink, and blue."

- Martine Bailey

"Without water, life would just be rock."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Mother Nature is the greatest artist and water is one of her favorite brushes."

- Rico Besserdich

"I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water."

- Anne Hathaway

"Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart."

- Patricia A. McKillip

"Do not turn me into restless water if you cannot promise to be my stream."

- Sanober Khan

"When water falls, it flies."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Tell your dream to the waterfall."

- Sellale

"Of all known liquids water is probably the most studied and least understood."

- Felix Franks

"I'm just like a waterfall falling, falling for you again."

- Meghan Trainor

"Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That’s a triumph."

- Ray Bradbury

"When you’re young, there’s so much that you can’t take in. It’s pouring over you like a waterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older."

- Sigourney Weaver

"My desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot."

- Kiersten White

"The waterfall winks at every passerby."

- Marty Rubin

"Good words cool more than cold water."

- John Ray

"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

- W.C. Fields

"Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea."

- Mikhail Lermontov

"Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way."

- Rishabh Gautam

"The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words."

- Octavio Paz

"But for the briefest moment, the blue of Zoe’s pool gave way to deeper, darker aqua-colored water. The few plants and rocks were replaced with a lagoon and a waterfall where several mermaids lounged half in the water, half in the sun. They splashed and dove, their laughter making the same sound as the water."

- Michelle Cuevas

"For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall."

- Salman Rushdie

"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."

- Mel Brooks

"Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

"The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are imagined only that content us."

- Henry David Thoreau

"When you are outpouring your emotion, it is like me trying to climb up a waterfall. To get to you. But if you are calm and have faith in me, I can sail right over to you. On the still waters of your soul."

- Kate McGahan

"You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together."

- Yoko Ono

"[My desert soul] erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot."

- Kiersten White

"She extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through."

- Virginia Woolf

"The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about — clouds, daffodils, waterfalls, what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in — these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks."

- Tom Stoppard

"All anyone can hope is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too."

- Edwidge Danticat

"We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world’s wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth."

- Albert Pike

"If there is a waterfall at the end of a river, it is necessary to swim upstream! Crowds too are rivers that end with waterfalls!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Sometimes, it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall."

- Kimberly McCreight

"I shift an infinitesimal movement towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do."

- Madeline Miller

"We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday."

- Josephine Hart

"I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents."

- Tahereh Mafi

"And listen to the faucets, like the rush of a waterfall heard through thick woods just as the birds began to sing early one morning years ago in the hills outside Florence."

- Kevin Prufer

"The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff."

- Alison Croggon

"Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff’s-edge, and we weren’t really leaves, even if I’d been careful to forget that."

- Naomi Novik

"There’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls, tumbling, gushing."

- Julie Andrews

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

- Leone Ross

"It was more than just the gentle tumble of the waterfall, or the wind or the sound of birds. It was much, much more he knew. He looked about him and he knew he had found what he had been looking for."

- Michael Delaware

"They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories."

- Marilyn Johnson

"Let’s swim to the moon Let’s climb through the tide Surrender to the waiting worlds That lap against our side."

- Jim Morrison

"I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows."

- Paulo Coelho

"I can see my rainbow calling me through the misty breeze of my waterfall."

- Jimi Hendrix

"the flow of a stream but the rock remaining powerful, breaks up the rapids of pleasures, birthing waterfalls of wisdom that no season can wear away..."

- Jayita Bhattacharjee

"The water tells none of its secrets."

- Nikos Engonopoulos

"Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person’s yard."

- Demetri Martin

"Your love is like a waterfall, running wild and free."

- Chris Tomlin

"Young leaves, the sound of a waterfall, heard from far and near."

- Yosa Buson

"Something’s going down like a waterfall, some strong feeling’s some old love."

- Carly Simon

"Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides."

- Victoria Kahler

"It was a short walk from the bridge to the waterfall, and I heard it long before I actually saw it, a loud, roaring sound that reverberated like rolling thunder. We passed under an outcropping of rock, and then there it was on the other side. Quixotic Falls. It took my breath away. The waterfall was so tall, I had to crane my neck to see the top of it. Shimmers of a rainbow reflected in the mist and sunlight, and the air was cool and damp. It felt good in the humidity of the afternoon. I closed my eyes, and enjoyed the mist that clung to my skin, coagulating into droplets. We walked along the underside of it, and the sunlight hit the falling water like it was glimmers of glass. The tunnel between the rock face and the waterfall was smooth and rounded from thousands of years of erosion. Vines crawled across the rocks--- morning glories and four o'clocks and honeysuckles. The waterfall poured down into a small watering hole that then slowly wormed its way into a larger river down the mountain. I knew this place would feel whimsical. Surrounding the swimming hole, the bright pink heather and stark white yarrow mixed with coneflowers and black-eyed Susans."

- Ashley Poston

"When God takes a shower, waterfalls come to life around the world. When I take a shower, my hair usually clogs the drain."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Canoe + Waterfall = I don’t go camping anymore."

- Demetri Martin

"Don’t go to restaurants that have waterfalls if you have a kidney condition."

- Johnny Carson

"Life is like a waterfall – always moving."

"It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things."

"Life is like a waterfall. It is always moving and there is always an uneven flow to it."

"And down the waterfall, whenever it may take me, I know that life won't break me."

"Lessons from a waterfall – Keep moving, and you will eventually get over it."

"Like a river, life doesn't flow backwards."

"A strong person and a waterfall always carve their own path."

"Waterfalls are nature’s laughter."

- Unknown

"The power of a waterfall is nothing but a lot of drips working together."

"Remember, the trick to not getting swept over the waterfall is swimming upstream."

"Great things are over every fall and around every bend."

"Waterfalls make us notice their height, not the depth."

"Love is like a waterfall, it happens naturally."

"My heart falls for you, like waterfalls in nature."

"Love is like a waterfall, it pours out of you forever."

"Not all falls are failures. Some are a way back home."

"I’ll be your bridge over troubled waters."

"Embrace life’s flow—unstoppable and beautiful."

"Let the flow of the waterfall remind you to keep moving forward."

"Just like a waterfall, let your dreams flow freely and fearlessly."

"Sometimes, you have to fall to rise again."

"Strength is found in the calm and the rush."

"Life flows like water—don’t resist the current."

"Be like the waterfall: unstoppable, bold, and full of grace."

"In the waterfall’s roar, find the courage to keep going."

"Every drop counts, every step matters."

"The waterfall never stops flowing, neither should you."

"Let your spirit flow with the force of a waterfall."

"A waterfall never asks for permission, and neither should you."

"In the fall of water, find the rise of your spirit."

"Sometimes the hardest falls lead to the most beautiful places."

"Go with the flow, but don’t forget to chase your dreams."

"The waterfall teaches us to be strong, yet gentle."

"In the rush of life, find your peace in the flow."

"Waterfalls remind us that growth happens in the flow, not the struggle."

"Like water, be adaptable and always move forward."

"Nature’s reminder: even the strongest forces flow with ease."

"Let the waterfall cleanse your soul and ignite your dreams."

"Every waterfall starts with a single drop—start small, dream big."

"Let the energy of the waterfall fuel your passion."

"Fall in love with the journey, not just the destination."

"Keep pushing forward, even when the waters get rough."

"Like a waterfall, let your dreams crash and cascade into reality."

"Trust the process—great things come in waves."

"A waterfall’s path is never straight, but it always gets there."

"May you find the strength of a waterfall in your own heart."

"Waterfalls teach us: always move forward, even when it seems impossible."

"There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on."