162 Inspiring Quotes About Flowers to Brighten Your Day

"Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots."

- Shannon Mullen

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms."

- Koshin Ogui

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul."

- Luther Burbank

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."

- Buddha

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

- Corita Kent

"Every flower blooms in its own time."

- Ken Petti

"A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."

- E.V

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."

- Luther Burbank

"If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

"Every flower blooms at a different pace."

- Suzy Kassem

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

- Laurie Jean Sennott

"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

"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 flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love."

- Max Müller

"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

"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

- Sheryl Crow

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too."

- Miranda Kerr

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard de Nerval

"Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun."

- Ellen Everett

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."

- Theodore Roethke

"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

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days."

- Robert Leighton

"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning."

- Lydia M. Child

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."

- Okakura Kakuzo

"She is a little wildflower with a lot of warrior underneath."

- Melody Lee

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

- Steve Maraboli

"Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world."

- Bryant McGill

"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right."

- Stephen Richards

"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

"Flowers whisper 'Beauty!' to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall."

- Dr. SunWolf

"So I ran fearing not where I'd go When a flower grows wild It can always survive Wildflowers don't care where they grow."

- Dolly Parton

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"I must have flowers, always, and always."

- Claude Monet

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."

- Tennessee Williams

"Bloom as if you want to make the whole world beautiful."

- Debasish Mridha

"If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Even when petals have flaws, all you see is a beautiful flower."

- Adrianne Elizabeth

"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

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"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

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."

- Gertrude S. Wister

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

- William C. Bryant

"Love is flower-like; friendship is like a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures, and the flower blooms."

- Carole Radziwill

"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."

- Claudia Adrienne Grandi

"Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."

- John Harrigan

"She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes."

- Arundhati Roy

"She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined."

- Erin Hanson

"A sunflower teaches us so much about love."

- Samrah Ahmad

"I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate."

- Halle Berry

"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."

- Ecouchard Le Brun

"Flowers don't tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

- Walter Hagen

"Spring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life."

- Jayita Bhattacharjee

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

- D. H. Lawrence

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."

- John Ruskin

"What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!"

- Roland R. Kemler

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

- Colette

"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."

- Victor Hugo

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns."

- Leigh Bardugo

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

- Heinrich Heine

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"All beings are flowers blossoming In a blossoming universe."

- Soen Nakagawa

"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."

- Oprah Winfrey

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The first wildflower of the year is like land after sea."

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Flowers are words which even a babe may understand."

- Arthur Cleveland Coxe

"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds."

- Stephen King

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom."

- Alice Walker

"He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival."

- Gemma Malley

"What a lovely thing a rose is!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?"

- Leigh Bardugo

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."

- William Shakespeare

"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."

- John Lubbock

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

"I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower."

- Christine and the Queens

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

"Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads."

- Pema Chodron

"The hills were alive with wildflowers and I Was as wild, even wilder than they For at least I could run…"

- Dolly Parton

"Flowers are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful', and sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling

"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."

- Honore de Balzac

"The beauty of flowers is forever captured in the way floral designers make them a part of our life's memories."

- Idalina Bertone

"Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us."

- Brian Jacques

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

- Joseph Joubert

"Flowers didn't ask to be flowers, and I didn't ask to be me."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers."

- Robert Fortune

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

- Brian Clough

"If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging."

- Alan Bennett

"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."

- Marcelene Cox

"If I had to describe the scent of Michigan in spring and summer, it wouldn't be a particular smell – blooming wildflowers or boat exhaust off the lake – it would be a color: Green."

- Viola Shipman

"Do you suppose she is a wildflower?"

- Lewis Carroll

"Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about – like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow."

- Philip Yancey

"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."

- Marcelene Cox

"Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table."

- Ina Garten

"I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don't know, if you will ever come back."

- Sanober Khan

"since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid"

- E.E. Cummings

"who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves"

- E.E. Cummings

"If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!"

- Delta Burke

"Say it with flower pots!"

- P. G. Wodehouse

"If you really screw up, send roses."

- Letitia Baldrige

"I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error."

- Sara Bonnett Stein

"You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night."

- J.K. Franko

"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."

- Ruth Brown

"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers."

- Doug Larson

"I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial."

- Bert Williams

"Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."

- J.D. Salinger

"Flowers are love's truest language."

- Unknown